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In 1942 or 1943, Warriner was approached by a publisher's sales representative about revising a grammar book dating from 1898. Warriner instead began writing chapters for a new book, which was published by Harcourt Brace as Warriner's Handbook of English, aimed at grades 9 and 10. This book was followed by a volume aimed at 11th and 12th graders.
Malcolm Laycock was born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, where his parents owned a grocer's shop. [4] He attended Bradford Grammar School after gaining a scholarship, and was a contemporary and friend of the artist David Hockney. [4]
The content in the books is largely based on The Manual of English Grammar and Composition by J. C. Nesfield. Other books in this series are Elementary English Grammar, A First Book of English Grammar and Composition, High School English Grammar and Composition and A Final Course of Grammar & Composition. The series of textbooks is still in use ...
The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...
The King's English is a book on English usage and grammar. It was written by the brothers Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler and published in 1906; [1] it thus predates by twenty years Modern English Usage, which was written by Henry alone after Francis's death in 1918.
Midnight in Death: Nov 1998 ISBN 978-0-515-12385-2: Out of this World Interlude in Death: Aug 2001 ISBN 978-0-515-13109-3: Bump in the Night Haunted in Death: Apr 2006 ISBN 978-0-515-14117-7: Dead of Night Eternity in Death: Nov 2007 ISBN 978-0-515-14367-6: Three in Death Interlude in Death. Midnight in Death. Haunted in Death. Jan 2008
French singer Charles Aznavour's English-language album I Will Warm Your Heart, which was recorded in 1975, was released on May 24, 2024, five years after his death from cardiorespiratory arrest. Six months later, the Spanish-language Christmas album El Disco de Navidad , which was recorded in 1996, was released on November 22, 2024.
Hobsbaum was born into a Polish Jewish family in London, and brought up in Bradford, Yorkshire, where he attended Belle Vue Boys' Grammar School. [3] He read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was taught and heavily influenced by F. R. Leavis. At Cambridge he took over the editing of the magazine delta from Peter Redgrove.