... when Latin was the language of learning. Thegrammar that wastaught in the early grammar schools in England was Latin grammar, not English grammar. The earliest known grammar of English was by ... vary the number of their entries and the qualityof their definitions, so we have many English grammars (or grammar books),which vary in their coverage and their accuracy. The largest English ... in the Appendix at the end of the book.Chapter 1 The English LanguageSummary English throughout the world (1.1-6)1.11.21.31.71.8 English internationally 3 The spread of English in the...
... University.They are sometimes used with &apos ;the& apos; or another determiner. the United Nations the Labour Party the University of Birmingham the Queen Mary the Guardian the Wall Street Journal. The ... because they are learning English and trying to master the structure of the language. As soon as they have enough practical English to master the text, they will find this grammar helpful to them ... time in the past: the simple past 216 Accent on the past: the past continuous 217 The past in relation to the present: the present perfect 217 Events before a particular time in the past: the...
... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE TheOxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED TheOxfordEnglish Dictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... disagreement. The proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage. TheOxford Guide to English Usage has this aim. Within the limits just ... Tess's Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the plural in the normal way, e.g. bosses' the octopuses' tentacles the...