David Crystal

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.

English Educator

Larry the Cable Guy

I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

American Comedian

Varun Dhawan

A lot of people have agencies to handle their social media, but I handle everything myself. That's why there are a lot of grammatical errors. When I write, it's all me!

Indian Actor

Jennifer Haigh

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.

American Novelist

Jhumpa Lahiri

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

American Author

Isobelle Carmody

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

Australian Writer

Edward Sapir

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

American Scientist

Robert Anton Wilson

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

American Writer

Robert Frost

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

American Poet

Janet Malcolm

People talk in ungrammatical, unwriterly ways.

Used often in language education to discuss sentence structure and word placement.

Common Usage

Not limited to mistakes; also refers to studying how sentences are formed correctly.

Beyond Errors

Common in academic settings; may not be as emphasized in informal language learning.

Academic Focus

Especially important when writing academically or professionally to be seen as credible.

Writing Standard

Being grammatical helps convey clear and precise ideas in both speech and writing.

Clarity of Expression

Using correct grammar can significantly affect how others perceive your language ability.

Credibility

 example eat versus sit and eat and if the latter construction got used over a long period of time it might grammatical eyes a little bit and produce something like being in the process of eating and having just finished eating and then a couple of sound changes later pretty soon you have the beginning of a verbal

What does it take to...

 its use is optional, and depends on whether it will help to avoid confusion. For one thing, you're supposed to keep your use or avoidance of the Oxford comma consistent throughout a whole piece of writing. So, using it only where necessary is not an option. And the very idea of a grammatical rule being optional

Grammar's great divide:...

 Each has its own unique history and characteristic pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical structures. But the dividing line between varieties is murky. Human language, in all its cross-pollinating, ever-evolving glory, naturally resists the impulse to sort it into neat buckets.

What makes a language......

 or too ungrammatical for them to pick up. These responses led me to the focus of my research. There are commonly held, yet harmful and incorrect beliefs about language that for the people who hold these beliefs, act as barriers to building and strengthening relationships

Language around gender...

 vocabulary and grammar that is quite different from the king of hip-hop jay-z now it's just the way it is language changes over time and it's a powerful force so Aries and I wanted to know more about that so we paid attention to a particular grammatical rule past tense

The mathematics of...

 people standing in line behind me all staring with you I could hear my funny accent I knew I was making grammatical mistakes my middle-eastern features stood out in the blonde crowd writing Farsi in public after someone called it weird signing

Beautiful Animation...

 "Thief robs town with world's largest chocolate bunny." Wait, so are we talking about this, or this? That's a classic case of a misplaced modifier, a common grammatical mistake that can dramatically change the meaning of a sentence.

How misused modifiers...

 or a set of grammatical rules. A language is a flash of the human spirit. It's a vehicle through which the soul of each particular culture comes into the material world. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind,

Wade Davis: Cultures at...

 These different interpretations create a sequence of words that is grammatically correct as it stands, though it helps to add in a few implied phrases and punctuation marks to reveal what's really going on.

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 But comparative linguistics can help us by focusing on grammatical structure, patterns of sound changes, and certain core vocabulary. For example, after the 6th century,

Grammatical