• Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ~Richard C. Trench

• 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

• Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. ~Robert Graves

• “Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?”― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Stupid English."

"English isn't stupid," I say.

"Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me."

"Why not?"

"He says lunch isn't a subject."

I glance at him. "It isn't."

"Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?”

― Jodi Picoult