Excerpt from The Elements of Grammar Taught in English: With Questions The study of Grammar in English has been much neglected, nay by some been put on one side as an impossibility. There was perhaps much ground for this opinion, in the medley of arbitrary rules thrown before the student, which applied indeed to a certain number of instances, but would not work at all in many others, as must always be the case when principles are not put forward in a language full of ambiguities. Partly too, histories of language, and ...
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Excerpt from The Elements of Grammar Taught in English: With Questions The study of Grammar in English has been much neglected, nay by some been put on one side as an impossibility. There was perhaps much ground for this opinion, in the medley of arbitrary rules thrown before the student, which applied indeed to a certain number of instances, but would not work at all in many others, as must always be the case when principles are not put forward in a language full of ambiguities. Partly too, histories of language, and treatises on language, have usurped the place of Grammar, and misled many by giving the name of Grammar to philological research. Yet it may be well to remember that to speak ungrammatically is to talk nonsense, and that ordinary Grammar is nothing more than the knowledge how to clothe thought in a presentable dress. The presentviii preface TO the second edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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