English Grammar (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from English Grammar<br><br> I. Every language has a history of its own, and it may be made to tell us its own life, so to speak, if we set the right way to work about it.<br><br>There are two ways of getting at this history. The first mode is by comparing one language with others that are well known to us. The second is by studying the literature of a language in order of time, or chronologically, beginning with the very oldest written books, and coming down to the latest and newest.<br><br>The first or comparative method is one that you have no doubt tried yourselves upon a small scale, when you have noticed how closely our word house resembles the German haus, or English thou hast the German du hast.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.