An English Grammar
An English Grammar, by William Malone Baskervill and James Witt Sewell of Vanderbilt University, is a school textbook first published in the 1890s and widely used in American schools. It treats the parts of speech one by one, with their inflections and uses, then turns to syntax and the analysis of sentences, simple, complex and compound. What distinguishes it is its use of examples: rather than invented sentences, the authors quote hundreds of passages from English and American writers, from Shakespeare and Milton to Emerson and Ruskin, so that grammar is learned from literature. Exercises follow each section, and the explanations are plain and orderly. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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