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Author : Noble Butler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368845742
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : Noble Butler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1330085795
Excerpt from A Practical and Critical Grammar of the English Language A certain class of persons think to show their superiority to the common herd by speaking contemptuously of grammar. Like Mrs. Squeers, they are thankful that they are "no grammarians;" and if want is a good ground for thankfulness, it must be admitted that some of them have much to be thankful for. The cant which is fashionable among them is sometimes very amusing. Suppose, for instance, that one of them should conceive the idea of contending for the correctness of "Where is it at?" His argument would probably be in the following style: "In fullness of thought the common people show themselves superior to the mere grammarian. "Where is it?" expresses the idea to the grammarians mind, it is true; but the man of the people feels his mind too full to be satisfied with so jejune an expression, and he pours out his fullness in 'Where is it at?'" Or suppose the beauties of you is should strike his fancy. He will then discourse in the following strain: Nothing but the prejudice of grammarians has prevented the adoption of you is in stead of the stiff and pedantic you are. You being singular when it denotes but one, how absurd to have it pretending to be plural! It may be said that while you is of the second person is is of the third; but shall we reject so euphonious an expression for the sake of grammatical person? To call such expressions incorrect English is to assume the point. No one says that ella e is bad Italian, and that ella sei is good. Dr. Webster has proved that you were should be changed to you was, and to be consistent we should change you are to you is. Grammarians of the smaller order may contend for you are; but go into the fields and the markets, and you will find you is flowing from lips that disdain to be locked up by grammatical rules. The office of the grammar of a language is to state what the language is. If it does not do so, it is not grammar; if it does state what the language is, he who sneers at it may think that he shows his superiority, but he shows nothing but his vanity and presumption. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Noble Butler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0267611293
Excerpt from A Practical and Critical Grammar of the English Language II. Words ending in any other consonant than f, l, or 3 do not. Double the final letter; as, war, drag. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Goold Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433069255184
Author : Noble Butler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368845759
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : Robert Lowth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1787
Category : English language
ISBN : GENT:900000088781
Author : John Carroll
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129484668X
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ A New English Grammar: Containing A Critical Demonstration Of The Definitions Of The Parts Of Speech, The Moods And Tenses Of Verbs, And The Rules And Notes Of Syntax, Never Before Published ... John Carroll A.M. Woodruff, 1884 Language Arts & Disciplines; General; English language; Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBSC:SC200039271
Author : Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191554728
Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and charts its downfall during the era of New Labour. This is a witty, readable account of a fascinating subject, liberally spiced with quotations from English speech and writing over the past 250 years.
Author : Lieselotte Anderwald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190624668
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.
Author : Goold Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : English language
ISBN : LCCN:02005671
Author : Robert Lowth
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : History
ISBN : BL:A0019671611
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139489591
The eighteenth century was a key period in the development of the English language, in which the modern standard emerged and many dictionaries and grammars first appeared. This book is divided into thematic sections which deal with issues central to English in the eighteenth century. These include linguistic ideology and the grammatical tradition, the contribution of women to the writing of grammars, the interactions of writers at this time and how politeness was encoded in language, including that on a regional level. The contributions also discuss how language was seen and discussed in public and how grammarians, lexicographers, journalists, pamphleteers and publishers judged on-going change. The novel insights offered in this book extend our knowledge of the English language at the onset of the modern period.
Author : Randolph Quirk
Publisher : London ; New York : Longman
Page : 1800 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015062113488
From the time when we started collaborating as a team in the 1960s, we envisaged not a grammar but a series of grammars. In 1972, there appeared the first volume in this series, A Grammar of Contemporary English (GCE). This was followed soon afterwards by two shorter works, A Communicative Grammar of English (CGE) and A University Grammar of English (UGE), published in the United States with the title A Concise Grammar of Contemporary English. With A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, we attempt something much more ambitious: a culmination of our joint work, which results in a grammar that is considerably larger and richer than GCE and hence superordinate to it. Yet, as with our other volumes since GCE, it is also a grammar that incorporates our own further research on grammatical structure as well as the research of scholars worldwide who have contributed to the description of English and to developments in linguistic theory. - Preface.
Author : Jacob Lowres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436861985
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