A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700-1800 (DENG) Free

Author: Prof. Bertil Sundby
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9027245509

A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700-1800 (DENG) (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences)

Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. Download A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700-1800 (DENG) (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic account of such 'errors'. Apart from source and page references, the Dictionary gives the context of the error (I have not wept this forty years), the correct or 'target' form ('these forty years'), the name of the authors quoted by the grammarians ('Addison', 'Swift'), and the labels which sum up their assessment of the error ('absurd', 'solecism'). It operates with error categories such as ambiguity, ellipsis and government (fourteen in all), Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.