Gertrude Stein Quotes

Grammar is the analysis of language.

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

I know what the structure of the language is.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Language is something that I take great interest in.

Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.

Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said "parole".

That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

She was born in the Objective case.

Make no a complete sentence.

I've always wanted to try new things because it's exciting and it keeps you active and alive.