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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.
Clair Robert "Bob" Emery (August 12, 1897–July 18, 1982), known professionally as Big Brother Bob Emery, was a radio and television pioneer and children's show host. He is best known for his pioneer late-1940s network television show, Small Fry Club , and for his long career as a local broadcaster in Boston before and after that.
A grammar book is a book or treatise describing the grammar of one or more languages. In linguistics , such a book is itself frequently referred to as a grammar . Etymology
In her 1997 book, the Washington Post columnist writes about the social imperatives for entertaining, and how the role of host and hostess in the nation's political capital has remained vitally ...
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 ...
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 ...
Richard Gilbert Emery was born 19 February 1915, [1] in University College Hospital, Bloomsbury, London. [2] His parents were the comedy double act Callan and Emery. [1] They took him on tour when he was only three weeks old and gave him the occasional turn on the stage during his childhood, which was always on the move and disrupted, creating problems for the future but setting the scene for ...
The kids moved in together,” the Hustlers actress said during a January 16 visit. “It’s been, like, a really kind of emotional transition, but at the same time all of your dreams coming true.”