Study English 24

 Introduction   English grammar is a description of the usages of the English language by good speakers and writers of the present day. –Whitney A description of account of the nature, build, constitution, or make of a language is called its grammar –Meiklejohn Grammar teaches the laws of language, and the right method of using it in speaking and writing. –Patterson Grammar is the science of letter; hence the science of using words correctly. –Abbott The English word grammar relates only to the laws which govern the significant forms of words, and the construction of the sentence. -Richard Grant White English grammar is the science which treats of the nature of words, their forms, and their uses and relations in the sentence. Conception of grammar Grammar is often misunderstood in the learning language. The misconception lies in the view that grammar is a collection of arbitrary rules about static structures in the language. Further questionable claim...