A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap
The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.
I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
