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Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.
Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.
I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.
Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.