Grammar and Its Reasons: For Students and Teachers of the English Tongue

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Contents

Chapter Page

I. — ^Present-Day English Grammar . 1

II. — ^Historic Growth of Grammar ... 5 III. — Grammar in America and Reactions

PART SECOND I. — ^Relation of Grammar to Other Kinds of

Language Study .... 321 II. — ^Relations of the Study of English Grammar to the Study of Foreign Grammars . 325 III. — Place of Grammar in the School Course . 329 IV. — Definitions in Grammar . . . 333 V. — ^Analysis and Parsing .... 337 VI. — Sentence Diagrams and Other Devices . 343 VII.— Some Words to Teachers . . .347 VIII.— Some Words to Writers . . .351 Bibliography 363

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The lady Gramer in all humbly wyse Dyd me receyve into her goodly schoole.

From Stephen Hawes's Allegory (Time of Henry VII) 5th chapter. "How Science sent him first to Gramer."