Excerpt from A Practical English Grammar: With Lessons in Composition and Letter-Writing
It ha.s been my aim in preparing this book to treat of the English language just as it is, to explain its constructions according to the logical relation of ideas as they exist in English thought, and not to introduce from the grammars of other languages terms, rules, exceptions, or explanations of things that have no existence in the English language.
I have tried to keep in mind that the grammarian's provi...