... when Latin was the language of learning. Thegrammar that was
taught 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 quality
of 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 Language
Summary
English throughout the world (1.1-6)
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.7
1.8
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...