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Book A Concise System of English Grammar

Download or read book A Concise System of English Grammar written by John Corbet (of Shrewsbury.) and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Concise System of English Grammar

Download or read book A Concise System of English Grammar written by John Corbet (of Shrewsbury.) and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700  1800  DENG

Download or read book A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700 1800 DENG written by Bertil Sundby and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic account of such 'errors'. Apart from source and page references, the Dictionary gives the context of the error (I have not wept this forty years), the correct or 'target' form ('these forty years'), the name of the authors quoted by the grammarians ('Addison', 'Swift'), and the labels which sum up their assessment of the error ('absurd', 'solecism'). It operates with error categories such as ambiguity, ellipsis and government (fourteen in all), which are subdivided into grammatically described main entries, subentries, and so on. The Introduction includes a guide to the use of the Dictionary, the grammatical code, and a discussion of grammatical concepts, error typologies, problems of identifying literary sources, attitudes to correctness, grammatical figures, and other topics. A Bibliography and an Index of lexical items and technical terms round off the volume. The way the Dictionary is organized should make it possible to find in it the answer to a wide variety of questions pertaining to grammar, style and linguistic historiography.

Book Grammar  Rhetoric and Usage in English

Download or read book Grammar Rhetoric and Usage in English written by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.

Book A Concise and Comprehensive System of English Grammar

Download or read book A Concise and Comprehensive System of English Grammar written by John Bell (teacher of grammar and the mathematics.) and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Teaching of English

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  • Author : Ian Michael
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1987-05-21
  • ISBN : 9780521241960
  • Pages : 652 pages

Download or read book The Teaching of English written by Ian Michael and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-05-21 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only academic educationalists interested in the history of the curriculum, but teachers - from primary schools to University, will find this book of compelling interest.

Book A Bibliography of Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922

Download or read book A Bibliography of Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922 written by Arthur Garfield Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Report by the Bureau of Education

Download or read book Special Report by the Bureau of Education written by United States. Bureau of Education and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Concise System of English Grammar

Download or read book A Concise System of English Grammar written by Abiah Darby and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A concise system of English grammar

Download or read book A concise system of English grammar written by John Corbet (of Shrewsbury.) and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Language Between Description and Prescription

Download or read book Language Between Description and Prescription written by Lieselotte Anderwald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative study of nineteenth-century English grammar writing, and of nineteenth-century language change. Based on 258 grammar books from Britain and North America, the book investigates whether grammar writers of the time noticed the language changing around them, and how they reacted. In particular, Lieselotte Anderwald demonstrates that not all features undergoing change were noticed in the first place, those that were noticed were not necessarily criticized, and some recessive features were not upheld as correct. The features investigated come from the verb phrase and include in particular variable past tense forms, which -although noticed-often went uncommented, and where variation was acknowledged; the decline of the be-perfect, where the older form (the be-perfect) was criticized emphatically, and corrected; the rise of the progressive, which was embraced enthusiastically, and which was even upheld as a symbol of national superiority, at least in Britain; the rise of the progressive passive, which was one of the most violently hated constructions of the time, and the rise of the get-passive, which was only rarely commented on, and even more rarely in negative terms. Throughout the book, nineteenth-century grammarians are given a voice, and the discussions in grammar books of the time are portrayed. The book's quantitative approach makes it possible to examine majority and minority positions in the discourse community of nineteenth-century grammar writers, and the changes in accepted opinion over time. The terms of the debate are also investigated, and linked to the wider cultural climate of the time. Although grammar writing in the nineteenth century was very openly prescriptivist, the studies in this book show that many prescriptive dicta contained interesting grains of descriptive detail, and that eventually prescriptivism had only a small-scale, short-term effect on the actual language used.

Book Introduction

Download or read book Introduction written by Ian Michael and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres  Arts  Sciences   c

Download or read book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences c written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: