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2. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Grammar - Wikipedia

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   The term grammar can also describe the linguistic behaviour of groups of speakers and writers rather than individuals. Differences in scale are important to this meaning: for example, English grammar could describe those rules followed by every one of the language's speakers. [2]

4. Grammatical conjugation - Wikipedia

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   On the other hand I goes, you goes etc. are not grammatical in standard English. (Things are different in some English dialects that lack agreement.) A few English verbs have no special forms that indicate subject agreement (I may, you may, he may), and the verb to be has an additional form am that can only be used with the pronoun I as the ...

5. English personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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   The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...

6. Grammar book - Wikipedia

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   Donatus' Ars Minor was the first printed book by Johannes Gutenberg. [4] 1471 Ancient Greek: Manuel Chrysoloras: Chrysoloras' Erotemata was the first printed book in greek language. [5] 1489 Hebrew: Moses Kimhi [6] 1492 Spanish: Antonio de Nebrija: Nebrija's Gramática de la lengua castellana is the first printed grammar of a vernacular ...

7. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language - Wikipedia

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   A number of quite basic categories and concepts do not seem to have been thought through with sufficient care; this results in a remarkable amount of unclarity and inconsistency in the analysis, and in the organization of the grammar. [2] A year later, the University of Queensland provided a special projects grant to launch a project for an ...

8. Syntactic Structures - Wikipedia

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   In the first chapter of the book, he gives a definition of human language syntax. He then talks about the goals of syntactic study. For Chomsky, a linguist's goal is to build a grammar of a language. He defines grammar as a device which produces all the sentences of the language under study.

9. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   The definition may be extended to idiomatic phrases that behave as a unit and perform the same function, e.g. "as well as", "provided that". A simple literary example of a conjunction is "the truth of nature, and the power of giving interest" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria). [3]