Sentence examples similar to pedantic grammar from inspiring English sources
Grumpy, crossword-fixated, drunk, slightly misogynistic, pedantic about grammar.
She was very pedantic about the grammar – what was a comma and what was a full stop.
Some make it into the Guardian; fewer still - but there are some - are introduced by the pedantic sticklers for style and grammar (spot that one?) when writing headlines, subheads, captions etc.
It's not just a pedantic, nannyish tic; those books on grammar and spelling are more than finger-wagging exercises.
Actually, when I said "any English teacher will tell you that 'The state is me' is bad grammar" I was being deliberately pedantic.
145) Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage by Oliver Kamm In a refreshing counterblast to the sticklers who have taken over the grammar debate, this self-professed "reformed pedant" celebrates the elasticity of the English language and demonstrates how, far from spoiling literature, improper usage has enriched it over the centuries.
I didn't know that TS Eliot had been on the Basingstoke Urban District Council Highways (Ring Roads and Street Furniture) Committee". This little tirade typifies Engleby's tone: supercilious, rather pedantic and inflected with the self-conscious erudition of a high-flying grammar-school boy.
For them, knowledge of the Classical languages meant the possibility of penetrating the thought of the past; grammar and rhetoric were being transformed into philological studies not for the sake of pedantic research but in order to acquire a new historical and critical consciousness.
But Comenius was certain that there was a better way of teaching Latin than by the inefficient and pedantic methods then in use; he advocated "nature's way," that is, learning about things and not about grammar.
