Grammar, as an art, is the power of reading, writing, and speaking correctly.

It has been well observed, "that grammar is the first thing taught, and the last learnt."

In these relations, grammar is an art; and as such, has long been defined, "ars rectè scribendi, rectèque loquendi" the art of writing and speaking correctly.

"Words are implements, and grammar is a machine.

In these relations, grammar is a science.

In this relation, our grammar is a text-book, which we take as a guide, or use as a help to our own observation.

Grammar is the etiquette of words, and the man who does not know how to properly salute his grandmother on the street until he has consulted a book, is always so troubled about the tenses that his fancies break thru language and escape.

Let grammar be a true record of existing facts, and all such contradictions must vanish.

"Alger's Grammar is only a trifling enlargment of Murray's little Abridgment.

Had Rossetti's knowledge of the technique of painting, its science, been equal to his feeling for it, he had certainly founded a school of the truest art; but, for schools, the grammar is the first requisite, and Rossetti had himself never been taught what he would have had to teach.

Grammar unsupported by authority, is indeed mere fiction.

[Fist] Devis's Grammar, spoken of in D. Blair's Preface, as being too "comprehensive and minute," is doubtless an other and much larger work.

"Grammar is the solid foundation upon which all other science rests.

"Alger's Grammar is only a trifling enlargement of Murray's little Abridgement.

English Grammar is not properly an indigenous production, either of this country or of Britain; because it is but a branch of the general science of philologya new variety, or species, sprung up from the old stock long ago transplanted from the soil of Greece and Rome.

Grammar is the appendenda vermiformis of the science of pedagogics: it is as useless as the letter q in the alphabet, or the proverbial two tails to a cat, which no cat ever had, and the finest cat in the world, the Manx cat, has no tail at all.

His grammars are the least judicious, and at present the least popular, of his works.

Grammar is perhaps the most comprehensive of all studies; but it is chiefly owing to the unskillfulness of instructors, and to the errors and defects of the systems in use, that it is commonly regarded as the most dry and difficult.

Grammar is then the key to the perfect understanding of languages; without which we are left to wander all our lives in an intricate labyrinth, without being able to trace back again any part of our way.

Grammar is not the only subject upon which we allow no man to innovate in doctrine; why, then, should it be the only one upon which a man may make it a merit, to work up silently into a book of his own, the best materials found among the instructions of his predecessors and rivals?

14.In other grammars, too, there are many instances of some of the errors here pointed out.

And yet it must be confessed, that his grammar and history and dictionary of what he calls the English language, are in all respects (except the bulk of the latter) most truly contemptible performances; and a reproach to the learning and industry of a nation which could receive them with the slightest approbation.

Universal or Philosophical Grammar is a large field for speculation and inquiry, and embraces many things which, though true enough in themselves, are unfit to be incorporated with any system of practical grammar, however comprehensive its plan.

Grammar is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and objective case.

Grammars and geographies, primers and elementary works of all kinds, were Mary's detestation; but she loved books that touched her heart and filled her mind with thoughts wide and deep enough to reach into the infinite of time and space, the mystery of mind and matter, life and death.