Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Whitney, William Dwight

9780365207696: Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0365207691 ISBN 13: 9780365207696

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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English grammar can in this way be made to pay back, with interest, the debt which it owes to Latin. It must be for practical use to show how far the endeavor to reach these ends is successful, in the work here put forth.

I have wished to give the main facts of the English lan guage just as they are in themselves, not importing into them any thing that belongs to other languages. With this in view, certain subjects have been treated in a somewhat new way, but one which will, I hope, commend itself to general approval by its reasonableness. The ordinary method with gender in nouns, for example, which was really an imposition upon English of a system of distino tions belonging elsewhere, has been abandoned in favor of one that is both truer and far simpler. The sharp distinction, again, of the verb-phrases or compound forms from the real verb-forms seems to me a matter of no small importance, if the study of the construction of sentences is to be made a reality.

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