Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
I know what the structure of the language is.
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.
I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
Grammar is the grave of letters.
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Grammar is the analysis of language.
An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went to public schools, so I never really learned it.
I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.
The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!
You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns.
