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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. History of English grammars - Wikipedia

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    1688. Guy Miège: The English Grammar. [34] 1693. Joseph Aickin: The English grammar. [34] 1700. A. Lane: A Key to the Art of Letters. [34] 1745. Ann Fisher A New Grammar. [35] 1761. Joseph Priestley: The Rudiments of English Grammar:Adapted to the Use of Schools. 1762. Robert Lowth: A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes ...

  4. Grammar book - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known grammar of a Western language is the second-century BCE Art of Grammar attributed to Dionysius Thrax, a grammar of Greek. Key stages in the history of English grammars include Ælfric of Eynsham's composition around 995 CE of a grammar in Old English based on a compilation of two Latin grammars, Aelius Donatus's Ars maior and ...

  5. Grammar - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Joseph Priestley's Rudiments of English Grammar (1761) A standard language is a dialect that is promoted above other dialects in writing, education, and, broadly speaking, in the public sphere; it contrasts with vernacular dialects , which may be the objects of study in academic, descriptive linguistics but which are rarely taught ...

  6. History of English - Wikipedia

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    Most native English speakers today find Old English unintelligible, even though about half of the most commonly used words in Modern English have Old English roots. [12] The grammar of Old English was much more inflected than modern English, combined with freer word order , and was grammatically quite similar in some respects to modern German .

  7. Category:English grammar - Wikipedia

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    English passive voice; Penthouse principle; English phrasal verbs; English plurals; Plural form of words ending in -us; Positive anymore; English possessive; Possessive antecedent; English prefix; English prepositions; Present continuous

  8. History of linguistic prescription in English - Wikipedia

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    During the second half of the 20th century, the prescriptivist tradition of usage commentators started to fall under increasing criticism. Thus, works such as the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, appearing in 1993, attempt to describe usage issues of words and syntax as they are actually used by writers of note, rather than to judge them by standards derived from logic, fine ...

  9. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL) says of complex prepositions, In the first place, there is a good deal of inconsistency in the traditional account, as reflected in the practice of dictionaries, as to which combinations are analysed as complex prepositions and which as sequences of adverb + preposition.