Grammatical Quotes
Grammar as craft, apprenticeship, and public measure.
These quotes treat grammatical skill as something learned rather than innate, including a writer who traced early lessons in structure back to performing plays as a young apprentice. Related craft reflections continue in the Art quotes on this site.
We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the rote learning of a grammatical rule or mathematical concept. But the habits of mind art cultivates are important.
Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.
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As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing the plays. I think that was a wonderful apprenticeship.
First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.
Adequately Quotes
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.
Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from the point of view of pronunciation and grammar. I don't think we pick up very many sounds and...
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One line notes that art teaches habits of mind beyond any single grammatical rule, while another uses grammatical fluency as a blunt public yardstick for a speaker's competence. See also Character quotes.
