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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. A Comprehensive 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. [3] Aarts, F. G. A. M. (April 1988). "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language: The great tradition ...

4. Warriner's English Grammar and Composition - Wikipedia

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   Last revised in 1981, the series was still in print at the time of Warriner's death in 1987. Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich described it as "one of the best selling series in textbook publishing history", with over 30 million copies sold. [2] Books of the series have been published in large-print, Braille, audiobook, and e-book editions. [3]

5. American and British English grammatical differences

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   In British English (BrE), collective nouns can take either singular (formal agreement) or plural (notional agreement) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

6. Article (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   A definite article is an article that marks a definite noun phrase.Definite articles, such as the English the, are used to refer to a particular member of a group. It may be something that the speaker has already mentioned, or it may be otherwise something uniquely specified.

7. English determiners - Wikipedia

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   Traditional grammar has no concept to match determiners, which are instead classified as adjectives, articles, or pronouns. [5]: 70 The articles and demonstratives have sometimes been seen as forming their own category, but are often classified as adjectives.