 | Paul Monroe - Education - 1912 - 738 pages
...the principal design of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety in that language, and to enable us to judge of every...form of construction, whether it be right or not." In other words, according to this theory, the purpose of grammar ie to serve as a handmaiden to the... | |
 | Werner Welte - English language - 1985 - 182 pages
..."The principal design of a grammar of any language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety in that language; and to enable us to judge of every phrase and form of construction, whether it is right or not. The plain way of doing this is to lay down rules and to illustrate them by examples."... | |
 | Florian Coulmas - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 254 pages
...The principle design of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety in that Language; and to enable us to judge of every...form of construction, whether it be right or not. (Lowth 1775: xi) Eine Sprachkunst iiberhaupt ist eine gegrundete Anweisung, wie man die Sprache eines... | |
 | Dieter Stein (linguiste).), Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade - Foreign Language Study - 1994 - 342 pages
...manifestation of the age. It is easy to be seduced by Lowth's stated aim of grammar (to enable the student "to judge of every phrase and form of construction, whether it be right or not" (1762: x)) into accepting that a doctrine of correctness pervades the eighteenth-century concern with... | |
 | Francis P. Dinneen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 680 pages
...of any Language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety in that Language, and to be able to judge of every phrase and form of construction,...down rules, and to illustrate them by examples... ... Universal Grammar cannot be taught abstractedly: it must be done with reference to some language... | |
 | Ronald Carter - Education - 1995 - 198 pages
...The principal design of a grammar of any language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety in that language; and to enable us to judge of every...and form of construction whether it be right or not. Robert Louth (1762) Our grammarians appear to me to have acted precipitately. It must be allowed that... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...The principal design of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety in that Language; and to enable us to judge of every...down rules, and to illustrate them by examples. But, beside shewing what is right, the matter may be further explained by pointing out what is wrong. Robert... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, John Algeo, R. W. Burchfield - Aneuploidy - 1992 - 676 pages
...nearly verbatim. Lowth's mission ("to teach us to express ourselves with propriety . . . and to be able to judge of every phrase and form of construction, whether it be right or not") found a willing disciple in Murray, and his gospel ("to lay down rules, and to illustrate them by examples... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1896 - 540 pages
..."The principal design of a Grammar of any language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety in that language and to enable us to judge of every...rules, and to illustrate them by examples. But besides showing what is right the matter may be further explained by pointing out what is wrong. I will not... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Agricultural colleges - 1921 - 1542 pages
...design of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety In that Language. The plain way of doing this Is to lay down rules, and to illustrate them by examples." And Brown, in 1823, again shows the close adherence to the method of centuries before: The only successful... | |
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In the preface to this volume, the author declares that " the principal design of a Grammar of any language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety in that language, and to enable us to judge of every phrase and form of construction, whether... 
