An English Grammar For The Higher Grades In Grammar Schools: Adapted From Essentials Of English Grammar

by William Dwight Whitney

""An English Grammar For The Higher Grades In Grammar Adapted From Essentials Of English Grammar"" is a book written by William Dwight Whitney and published in 1901. The book is intended for students in higher grades of grammar schools, and it is an adaptation of Whitney's earlier work ""Essentials Of English Grammar."" The book covers a wide range of topics related to English grammar, including parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, and more. It is designed to be easy to understand and use, with clear explanations and numerous examples throughout. The author, William Dwight Whitney, was a prominent linguist and scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was known for his work on Sanskrit and other ancient languages, as well as his contributions to the study of linguistics and language theory. Overall, ""An English Grammar For The Higher Grades In Grammar Adapted From Essentials Of English Grammar"" is a valuable resource for students and teachers alike, providing a comprehensive and accessible guide to the rules and conventions of English grammar.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

274 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 2010

About the author

William Dwight Whitney was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution. He was the first president of the American Philological Association and editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary.

Whitney revised definitions for the 1864 edition of Webster's American Dictionary, and in 1869 became a founder and first president of the American Philological Association. In the same year he also became Yale's professor of comparative philology. Whitney also gave instruction in French and German in the college until 1867, and in the Sheffield scientific school until 1886. He wrote metrical translations of the Vedas, and numerous papers on the Vedas and linguistics, many of which were collected in the Oriental and Linguistic Studies series (1872–74). He wrote several books on language, and grammar textbooks of English, French, German, and Sanskrit.

His Sanskrit Grammar (1879) is notable in part for the criticism it contains of the Ashtadhyayi, the Sanskrit grammar attributed to Panini. Whitney describes the Ashtadhyayi as "containing the facts of the language cast into the highly artful and difficult form of about four thousand algebraic-like rules (in the statement and arrangement of which brevity alone is had in view at the cost of distinctness and unambiguousness)."