The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation Quotes

“Not until 1761 did any grammarian settle on the eight that became the canonical parts of speech in English. He was the same man who discovered oxygen: Joseph Priestley (1733–1804). In his Rudiments of English Grammar, he listed these: • noun • adjective • pronoun • verb • adverb • preposition • conjunction • interjection15”
― Bryan A. Garner, The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation

“mostly unsuccessful attempts to teach grade-school children English using transformational grammar were made during the 1960s and early 1970s. Today it is taught mostly in colleges and graduate schools. Outside linguistics, transformational grammar is used mostly in computer-language-processing applications. It has an alien look and feel to traditionalists, but it can convey interesting insights into how the language works”
― Bryan A. Garner, The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation