Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought forward as their April number a parody of The Dial (monthly organ of "advanced" literature, appreciation and criticism published in Manhattan). This parody was inoffensive enough, being only an effort to attract attention by appearing more sophisticated than the sophisticates. The young Advocates "reviewed" the Bible, the Sanskirt Grammar, the Boston Social Register...
...Mary Reade is joking, I chuckle with her. If not, she might refer to page 939 of Webster's New International Dictionary, 1920, giving one definition of the adjective "grammatical" as "of or pertaining to" grammar. Therefore to use the word "broadcasted" as the past tense of the verb "to broadcast" is properly referred to as a "grammatical" error. A. H. MILES
...however, better than no stamp, and too good for many who are given the impression from four years of it. Not more than one-quarter of America's 110 millions deserve more than a grammar school education. They need instruction which educators now will not give them. Such education will not come until men are classified according to their intelligence and their bent and until those lowest on the scale are given manual education...
...introductory course deals with the grammatical foundations of the language; the later courses are concerned for the most part, with literature. Those departments, therefore, should be thought of as dealing, like English, with literature, which cannot, of course, be reached except by wading through a certain amount of grammar...
...beat And Tom went howling down the street-is obviously "bad grammar, bad morals." I chiefly object," said earnest Mrs. Stoner "to teaching children such nonsense because it misrepresents life. . . . It is not only criminal to do so but it helps to make criminals of children." Then, to show that she was not merely a destructive critic, Mrs. Stoner recited one of the numerous "jingle facts" that she has written in the hope of ousting Mother Goose...