Gwynne'S Grammar: The Ultimate Introduction To Grammar And The Writing Of Good English

Product Descriptionanxious About Apostrophes? In A Pickle Over Pronouns And Prepositions? Fear Notmr. Gwynne Is Here With His Wonderfully Concise And Highly Enjoyable Handbook. Within These Witty, Opinionated, And Astonishingly Useful Pages, Adults And Children Alike Will Find All They Need To Rediscover The Neglected Science Of Writing Good English. Mr. Gwynne Believes That Happiness Depends At Least Partly On Good Grammarand Mr. Gwynne Is Never Wrong.Reviewcurious And Brilliant. The Spectator[Gwynne] Brings A Bewitching Zealand A Defiantly Oldfashioned Approachto The Study Of English Grammar And Usage. . . . Gwynnes Grammar Has Its Undeniable Pleasures. The Boston Globeunflinchingly, Unapologetically Rearguard . . . With Not The Least Wisp Of Dumbingdown. . . . His Definitionsterse, Logical, Preciseare Among The Best Things In The Book. The Wall Street JournalA Sprightly Handbook . . . The Examples Are Lively, The Advice Direct And Confident. Some Of It, Once Heard, Wont Be Forgotten. . . . Gwynnes Certainty Is Infectious. First Thingswarm And Utterly Selfassured . . . Refreshingly Opinionated . . . [Gwynne] Is An Unashamed Prescriptivist . . . [And His] Judgment Is Unambiguous . . . It Doesnt Matter How Many Academic Linguists Tell Us That Language Changes Over Time . . . Educated People Still Want To Know Whether They Should Write Amuck Or Amok, Between Or Among. The Weekly Standarddynamite To Modern, Childcentered Education: A Guide To The Forgotten Rudiments Of The English Language. Daily Telegraph (Uk)Witty, Engaging And Highly Educational Stuff. Times Educational Supplement (London)About The Authorformerly A Successful Businessman, N. M. Gwynne Has For Many Years Been Teaching Just About Every Sort Of Subject To Just About Every Sort Of Pupil In Just About Every Sort Of Circumstanceenglish, Latin, Greek, French, German, Mathematics, History, Classical Philosophy, Natural Medicine, The Elements Of Music And How To Start Up And Run Your Own Businessin Lecturehalls, Large Classrooms, Small Classrooms And Homesto Pupils Aged From Two Years Old To Over Seventyof Many Different Nationalities And In Several Different Countriesand Since 2007 Facetoface Over The Internet. English Grammar Has Been The Basis Of Many Of The Subjects He Has Taught.His Teaching Methods Are Very Much In Accordance With The Traditional, Commonsense Ones, Refined Over The Centuries, That Were Used Almost Everywhere Until They Were Abolished Worldwide In The 1960S And Subsequently. His Teaching Has Been Considered Sufficiently Remarkableboth In Its Unusualness In Todays World And In Its Genuinely Speedy Effectivenessto Have Featured In Newspaper And Magazine Articles And On Television And Radio Programmes.Excerpt. Reprinted By Permission. All Rights Reserved.Chapter 3Further Encouragementagainst The Background Of The Last Chapter, I Find Myself Provoked Into Raising A Question Of Some Moment. Have I Your Attention, Dear Reader? Here Is The Question.Is This Book That You Have In Your Hands, In A Way That Really Does Matter, The Single Most Important Book In Print In The English Language Today?At Most, I Am Only Partly Joking. What I Am Trying To Do Is To Make A Serious Point As Arrestingly And Vividly As I Can. I Certainly Deny That What I Have Just Said Is Completely Absurd. Let Us Now See If It Is At Least Defensible.As Has Just Been Shown, And As Was Stressed By Libby Purves In The Previous Chapter, All Thinking And Communicating Of Any Kind Depend On Grammargrammar Being Simply The Correct Use Of Words, And Words Being The Indispensable Tools Of Thought.Indeed To Dismiss The Need For The Accuracy In Grammar That Only Reasonably Diligent Study And Training Can Give Is Almost Selfcontradictory. You Need Correct Grammar Even To Be Able To Argue As Convincingly As You Can Against The Need To Learn Grammar.To Proceed. If Every Human Activity Depends