1The agonies of learning grammar rules are deeply embedded in our psyche.
2The problem with breaking grammar rules, however, is that it can leave readers confused.
3In Cherryvale it would be considered bad grammar ; but, evidently, grammar rules were different in olden times.
4Literacy operates from top (vocabulary, grammar rules, and phonetics are given in advance) to bottom.
5Although it only had 250 words and six grammar rules it was enough for the media of the time to be suitably impressed.
6Those principles, which you then got, like your grammar rules, only by rote, are now, I am persuaded, fixed and confirmed by reason.
7The New Yorker, May 24, 1947 P. 65 A bright pupil in the 8th grade delights in tripping up the teacher on grammar rules.