English Grammar Simplified: Its Study Made Easy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

James C. Fernald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282487379 ISBN 13: 9780282487379

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from English Grammar Simplified: Its Study Made Easy

Predicate; as, The Noun in the Complete Subject, etc. After the treatment of the Simple Sentence, Compound and Complex Sentences are explained as combinations of Simple Sentences. That is all. There is nothing left to do.

The simplest words that the subject will bear have been used in the statements of facts and principles, the rule being to use, wherever possible, a common in preference to a technical word.

English grammar is here taught distinctly and definitely as English, with no attempt to make it resemble the Latin, Greek, French, German, etc. The English has become a real and grand world-language, with a vast literature and a special genius of its own, and is not to be shaped to the model of any other. Throughout the work the con trolling idea has been, not that the grammar is to make the language, but that the language has made the gram mar. Fortunately, English can do what many other lan guages can not do, and in treating English grammar the English language is our sole concern.

The illustrative selections, in the various Exercises, chosen both for simplicity and beauty, are all from the best literature, every quotation thus carrying authority. Each quotation is located, both by the name of the author and of his work, that the grammatical study may help also to lead the student out to a good range of reading. Many a sentence, if learned, will come back with more than the power of a rule, to settle some disputed point, for these extracts represent grammar in action in the hands of those who know how to use it.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0282487379
• ISBN 13: 9780282487379
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 290