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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 ...
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.
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language; E. English Grammar in Use; G. A Grammar of the Dialect of the Bolton Area; L. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written ...
In April 2016, the publisher released The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, Bryan A. Garner's expansion of his Chicago Manual of Style chapter on the topic, and coinciding with the release of the new edition of Garner's Modern American Usage. The 17th edition was published in September 2017.
The first edition of the book was released in 1985. [1] This release contained 378 pages and had an ISBN of 9780521287234. Since then, the book has gone through a number of reprints. In 2019, the 5th version of the book has been released. [2]
[26] Other books by Nesfield include A Junior Course In English Composition, A Senior Course In English Composition, but it was his A Manual Of English Grammar and Composition that proved to be greatly successful both in Britain and her colonies—so much so that it formed the basis for many other grammar and composition primers including but ...
main topic: English grammar: Dewey Decimal: 425: Universal Decimal: 811.111'36 ... Nonstandard English grammar (10 P) English nouns (3 C, 4 P) P. Plain English (12 P)
Practical English Usage is a standard reference book aimed at foreign learners of English and their teachers, written by Michael Swan. Published by Oxford University Press, it has sold over 2 million copies since the first edition was published in 1980. [1] A new, and greatly extended second edition was published in 1995.