The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.
Michel de Montaigne
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special nstitutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
Gilles Deleuze
People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.
B.R. Myers
English grammar is the body of rules that describe the structure of expressions in the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses and sentences.
There are historical, social, cultural and regional variations of English. Divergences from the grammar described here occur in some dialects of English. This article describes a generalized present-day Standard English, the form of speech found in types of public discourse including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news reporting, including both formal and informal speech. There are certain differences in grammar between the standard forms of British English, American English and Australian English, although these are inconspicuous compared with the lexical and pronunciation differences.
Carl William Brown
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. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn’t, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren’t available to the Romans.
Bill Bryson
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!
Roald Dahl
I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I’d like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I’ve tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.
John Updike
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.
Robert Breault
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
Bill Bryson
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical correctitude sometimes proves easier to urge than to achieve. Among the errors cited in this book are a number committed by some of the leading authorities of this century. If men such as Fowler and Bernstein and Quirk and Howard cannot always get their English right, is it reasonable to expect the rest of us to?
Bill Bryson
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
Mark Twain
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.
John Muir
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves
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.
Robert A. Heinlein
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.
Bill Bryson
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.
Robert Burchfield
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion
My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. Milne
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Chenevix Trench
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
William Safire
At the following links you can find a lot of useful and interesting English language material:
Video links to learn good English
Interactive English exercises and tests
Countable and uncountable nouns
The Online English Grammar (Pdf book)
www.daimon.org/education/english/ (Lots of links)
English and International Books
www.liveworksheets.com (All languages)
Free languages courses (All languages)
English Phonetic Symbols with reading examples
https://www.pppst.com/ (Lots of free Ppt)
http://iteslj.org/questions/ (Lots of questions)
www.goethe-verlag.com (Lots of tests)
Improving-bad-grades (Article)
www.perfect-english-grammar.com
https://www.daimon.org/lib/books.htm (Lots of free e-books)
Grammarly: Free Online Writing Assistant
https://epdf.pub/en/ (Lots of free e-books)
www.daimon.org/lib/books.htm (Free books)
www.english-online.org.uk/exam.htm
http://www.englishmedialab.com
https://www.englishexercises.org
http://www.tuneintoenglish.com (Karaoke songs)
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