English Grammar and Composition: Third Course

Warriner's English Grammar and Composition

by John E. Warriner

Warriner's English Grammar and Composition is a series of textbooks on English grammar and composition by John E. Warriner, consisting initially of six books targeted at grades 6 through 12, in numerous editions, with publication beginning in 1946 and a 7th book added in 1959. Last revised in 1981, the series was still in print at the time of Warriner's death in 1987. Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich described it as "one of the bestselling series in textbook publishing history", with over 30 million copies sold. This book includes Part Grammar – The parts of speech, the parts of a sentence, the phrase, the clause; Park Usage – Agreement, the correct use of verbs, the correct use f pronouns, the correct use of modifiers, and a glossary of usage; Park Sentence Structure – Writing complete sentences and achieving sentence variety; Part Four – Writing paragraphs, writing compositions, manuscript form, writing summaries and reports, writing stories, making writing interesting, and the business letter; Part Mechanics – Capital letters, end marks and commas, semicolons and colons, italics and quotation marks, apostrophes, and other marks of punctuation; and Part Aids To Good English – The library, the dictionary, vocabulary, and spelling. As well as an Index and Tab Key Index.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, Reference, Language

Hardcover

First published June 1, 1977

About the author

Mr. Warriner - originally from Michigan, where his parents were educators - received his bachelor's degree in English at the University of Michigan and his master's at Harvard University.

He taught at the New Jersey Teachers College in Montclair in the early 1930's, then became an English teacher at Garden City High School in Garden City, L.I. He retired from teaching in 1962.

It was during World War II that a publisher's representative approached Mr. Warriner about revising a textbook that had been in use since 1898. Mr. Warriner instead offered his ideas for a new book. But when the publisher's timetable seemed indefinite, he took his ideas to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

The result was ''Warriner's Handbook of English,'' intended for grades 9 and 10. Books for the other grades followed.

''I had a theory about what a textbook should be,'' Mr. Warriner recalled years later, ''and we incorporated it into this book. The theory I've always gone on is that the teacher does the teaching. I mean by that the textbook is merely a record of what the teacher teaches; and the idea that a textbook can be lively and exciting and illustrated and full of pictures and sort of like a bulletin board - that's not what I want in my classes.''

Reviews

[Qi]

There is no answer sheet to the exercise questions.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have an older edition of this book that I acquired used. It dates from 1963. I've used it as a reference tool, haven't read it from cover to cover. I'd like a more modern, more thorough one, but this has been okay. If I could only apply myself a little bit better, I could learn all sorts of things about grammar!

[Sarah Yasin]

A decent book that's just a bit outdated - there is a sample sentence therein about OJ Simpson that goes something like "we all enjoyed his performance." Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

[Mrwan Mrwan]

ok

[Ivan Rey]

I look forward to reading it.