A Working Grammar of the English Language

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Excerpt from A Working Grammar of the English Language: Designed to Give in Simple Statement the Principles and Methods of Correct English Speech and WritingGrammar is the treatment of words in their relations as used for the expression of thought.There is no grammar of a mere list of words as given, for instance, in a dictionary. Grammar does not con sider words except as used in connection with other words to express some meaning beyond that of the individual words.Words as used for the expression of thought are divided into classes called Parts of Speech. A combination of words expressing a complete thought, as, Man needs food, is called a Sentence.Hence Grammar may appropriately be taught and studied under two divisions, viz.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.