• English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts...
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  • The history of English grammars begins late in the sixteenth century with the Pamphlet for Grammar by William Bullokar. In the early works, the structure...
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  • The grammar of Old English differs considerably from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected. As a Germanic language, Old English has...
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    grammar of Modern English is widely acknowledged, most specialists in language contact do not consider English to be a true mixed language. English is...
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  • English Grammar in Use is a self-study reference and practice book for intermediate to advanced students of English. The book was written by Raymond Murphy...
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    A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally...
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  • meaning: for example, the term "English grammar" could refer to the whole of English grammar (that is, to the grammar of all the language's speakers)...
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    Middle English saw significant changes to its vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and orthography. Writing conventions during the Middle English period...
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    1600s by analogy with Latin grammar and by some teachers since, though many have always accepted it as part of standard English Distinction or lack of it...
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  • The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CamGEL) is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and...
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  • A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language is a descriptive grammar of English written by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan...
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  • focus their grammars less on the subject-object or agent-object dichotomies but rather on the pragmatic dichotomy of topic and comment. In English traditional...
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  • Construction Grammar meets Dependency Grammar". Cognitive Linguistics. 23 (1): 163–214. doi:10.1515/cog-2012-0006. Radford, Andrew (2004). English syntax:...
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  • Traditional grammar (also known as classical grammar) is a framework for the description of the structure of a language. The roots of traditional grammar are...
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  • Modern English and Modern Scots, and largely incomprehensible for Modern English or Modern Scots speakers without study. Within Old English grammar nouns...
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  • adopted more or less directly into Latin and Greek grammars; from there, it made its way into English grammars, where it is applied directly to the analysis...
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  • 1968. A Grammar of Standard English. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fergusson, R. and M. Manser 1998. The Macmillan Guide to English Grammar. London:...
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  • outlines the grammar of the Dutch language, which shares strong similarities with German grammar and also, to a lesser degree, with English grammar. Vowel length...
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  • essays for plagiarism. Grammarly was initially designed as an educational app to help university students improve their English skills. It was later offered...
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    In the traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle...
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    While the English language lacks distinct inflections for mood, an English subjunctive is recognized in most grammars. Definition and scope of the concept...
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    few), proximity (this, those), or possession (my, the government's). English grammar requires that, in most cases, a singular, countable noun phrase start...
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  • Sidney; Leech, Geoffrey; Svartvik, Jan (1985). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Harlow: Longman. p. 328. ISBN 978-0-582-51734-9. [the...
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  • sentence. For example, in Standard English, one may say I am or he is, but not "I is" or "he am". This is because English grammar requires that the verb and its...
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  • difficulties but are still closer to Modern English grammar, lexicon and phonology than are 14th-century Middle English texts, such as the works of Geoffrey...
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    present consequences. The term is used particularly in the context of English grammar to refer to forms like "I have finished". The forms are present because...
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    of English Grammar (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-174444-0. Pullum, Geoffrey K. (1982). "Syncategorematicity and English infinitival...
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    corresponds to the genitive. The history of the idea of prepositions in English grammar writing can be seen as one of relative stagnation, only exceptionally...
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    The (/ðə, ðiː/ ) is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied...
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  • As with most English varieties spoken by African Americans, African-American Vernacular English shares a large portion of its grammar and phonology with...
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