Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a parent and educator suspects that children's radio programs overexcite their youthful audiences. Parent John James DeBoer, whose one child is too young to listen to radio, investigated the suspicion. He questioned 738 grammar-school children, had 486 radio-listening moppets watched, used a "photopolygraph" (modified lie detector) on 148 to measure respiration, blood pressure, pulse, electrical resistance of skin...
Readers who penetrate its obscurities, however, find that Mr. Richards makes shrewd sense. Aiming to teach students to think by a logical examination of the meaning of words, he proposes that rhetoric, grammar and logic be restored to the modern school curriculum. But he would teach these subjects in a new way: not the rules of grammar but the reasons for the rules...
...authors, Winifred Watson, a St. Paul public-school teacher, and Julius M. Nolte of University of Minnesota, acted on the advice of Ralph Waldo Emerson to "smuggle" into grammar teaching "a little contraband wit, fancy, imagination, thought." Their defense for trying to teach grammar painlessly: modern children not only find grammar study dull but arrive in high school and college knowing wretchedly little about...
Their little 99-page book is illustrated with pigs running, boys fishing, trapeze artists swinging, clocks walking ("time marches on" = present tense). This is the way A Living Grammar teaches children to remember the parts of speech...
...Living Grammar makes short work of the attribute complement, the subjunctive mood, the future perfect tense. Say the authors: "Why should anyone be tense about tense...