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Jane Straus (May 18, 1954 – February 25, 2011) [1] was an American writer whose works include The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation and Enough is Enough! [2] Born in San Francisco, she studied at the University of California. [2] She was the founder of GrammarBook.com and a "Relationship expert, author, radio host, and media guest." [3]
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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 ...
A description, study, or analysis of such rules may also be known as a grammar, or as a grammar book. A reference work describing the grammar of a language is called a reference grammar or simply a grammar. A fully revealed grammar, which describes the grammatical constructions of a particular speech type in great detail is called descriptive ...
Big Blue Books are a series of small staple-bound books published from 1925 to 1950 by the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company of Girard, Kansas (1919–1978), larger than the Little Blue Books. The series included both reprints and first publications, the latter including An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish by Bertrand Russell .
Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, a Revolutionary War drill manual colloquially referred to as the "Blue Book" Blue Book, American name for a World War II Japanese naval code; The Blue Book of Denver society, originally by Louise Sneed Hill; The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, a transcript of the ...
In America in 1765, the Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson, founder and first president of King's College in New York City (now Columbia University) published An English Grammar; the First Easy Rudiments of Grammar Applied to the English Tongue. It "appears to have been the first English grammar prepared by an American and published in America."
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