This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put. Author unknown, variations & attributions, inc Churchill
A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with. Winston S Churchill, attributed
Let me just acknowledge that the function of grammar is to make language as efficient and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication. John Green
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences. Gertrude Stein, Lectures in America
I can’t think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one’s grammar. It’s a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I’m afraid. Dorothy L Sayers
Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college. Kurt Vonnegut
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. Robert Graves
A philosopher once said, Half of good philosophy is good grammar. A P Martinich
The rhetorical process functioned in many areas other than speech: Curtius wrote about ‘rhetorical landscape representations’ while Serpieris speaks of ‘la retorica al teatro’ (the rhetorical use of theatrical space), and music historians have learned that the language and approach of musical theory in the Middle Ages were borrowed directly from medieval grammar and rhetoric. Thomas Binkley, 1997
Grammars (vyākaranas) concern the description of speech forms (śabda) considered to be correct (sādhu) through derivation and thereby serve to make understood the usage found in the Vedas. The grammar that was granted the status of a Vedānga is that of Pānini. This work is referred to in toto as a śabdānuśāsana (means of instruction of correct speech forms); since the core of Pānini’s work comprises the eight chapters of sūtras that serve to describe both the current language of his time and features particular to Vedic, it also bears the name Annādhyāyī Professor George Cardona, Indo-Aryan languages, 2014
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genus a better discerning,
Let them brag of their heathenish gods,
Their Lethes, their Styxes, and Stygians:
Their quis, and their qute’s, and their quod’s,
They’re all but a parcel of pigeons.
Toroddle, toroddle, toroddle. Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer p13, 1823