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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.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Important
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Michelle Dean

He
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Nov 07, 2020

Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.

Quotes by Lionel Shriver

Reading
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Jennifer Haigh

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.

Quotes by Isobelle Carmody

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

Quotes by Edward Sapir

Handled
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Edward Sapir

Nov 07, 2020

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 grammatical instructions from the films we see - but the catchphrases.

Quotes by David Crystal

Nov 07, 2020

I think if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you start figuring out where you could be doing better. But as far back as I can trace, I always wrote clear, grammatical prose.

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.

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