The Elements of English Grammar
With a Chapter on Essay-Writing

Originally published in 1907, this informative and engaging textbook sets out to contain and explicate all of the elements of English grammar.

Alfred S. West (Author)

9781316633441, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 February 2017

350 pages
17.7 x 12.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.5 kg

Originally published in 1907, as the revised edition of an 1893 original, this informative and engaging textbook sets out to contain and explicate all of the elements of English grammar. Primarily aimed at secondary school students, this book condenses and synthesizes the most important information, recognising and demonstrating throughout 'how much the half is greater than the whole'. Notably, 'a good supply of sentences for correction has been added to the concluding chapters on syntax' and questions appear at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning. Most questions have been chosen from Cambridge and Oxford Local Examination Papers and papers from the Royal College of Preceptors. Chapters are broad in scope; chapter headings include, 'Inflexion of nouns', 'Auxiliary and defective verbs' and 'Syntax of verbs'. This book will be of considerable value to anyone with an interest in the history of the English language and the history of education.

Preface
1. Historical survey
2. Constituents of the English vocabulary
3. The Indo-Europeans or Aryan family of languages
4. The divisions of grammar
5. Elementary sounds in English
6. Signs or letters
7. Egyptology
8. Nouns
9. Inflexion of nouns I - gender
10. Inflexion of nouns II - number
11. Inflexion of nouns III - case
12. Adjectives
13. Inflexion of adjectives
14. Pronouns
15. Verbs
16. Inflexions of verbs
17. Auxiliary and defective verbs
18. Adverbs
19. Prepositions
20. Conjunctions and interjections
21. Compounds and derivatives
22. Analysis of sentences and parsing
23. Syntax of nouns
24. Syntax of adjectives and pronouns
25. Syntax of verbs
26. Syntax of adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions
Appendix 1. Definitions of grammatical terms
Appendix 2. Passages for analysis
Essay-writing
Subjects for essays
Index.

Subject Areas: Historical & comparative linguistics [CFF]