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2. History of English grammars - Wikipedia

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   Robert Lowth: A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes. [36] 1763. John Ash: Grammatical institutes: or, An easy introduction to Dr. Lowth's English grammar. [37] 1765. William Ward: An Essay on English Grammar. [38] 1766. Samuel Johnson: A dictionary of the English Language...: to which is prefixed, a Grammar of the English ...

3. Grammar book - Wikipedia

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   [1]: 74 Numerous grammars aimed at foreign learners of English, sometimes written in Latin, were published in the seventeenth century, while the eighteenth saw the emergence of English-language grammars aiming to instruct their Anglophone audiences in what the authors viewed as correct grammar, including an increasingly literate audience of ...

4. 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 ...

5. List of children's classic books - Wikipedia

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   1823 (English) [3] [20] A Visit From St. Nicholas: Clement Clarke Moore: 1823 [3] Tales of Peter Parley About America: Peter Parley (pseudonym) 1827 [3] The Three Musketeers: Alexandre Dumas, père: 1844: Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen: 1846 (English) [3] The Children of the New Forest: Frederick Marryat: 1847: Slovenly Peter: Heinrich ...

6. Warriner's English Grammar and Composition - Wikipedia

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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.

7. The Adventure of English - Wikipedia

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   The modern Frisian language is the closest-sounding language to the English used approximately 2,000 years ago, when the people from what is now the north of the Netherlands travelled to what would become England, and pushed the Celtic language—ancestor of modern Welsh— to the western side of the island. Words like "blue" can be recognised ...

8. History of English - Wikipedia

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   The Story of English in 100 Words. Picador. ISBN 978-1250024206. David Crystal (2015). Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198729136. John McWhorter (2017). Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally). Picador. ISBN 978-1250143785.

9. Wren & Martin - Wikipedia

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   Wren & Martin refers to a single book High School English Grammar and Composition or collectively, a series of English grammar textbooks written jointly by P. C. Wren and H. Martin. [1] Written primarily for the children of British officers residing in India , these books were widely adopted by Indian and Pakistani schools in the post-colonial ...