Year: | 1750 | ||
Short description: | Ann Fisher's 'A New Grammar', | ||
Medium description: | Ann Fisher's 'A new grammar, with exercises of bad English: or, an easy guide to speaking and writing the English language properly and correctly' 2nd edition published. Michael (1987) claims that this contains the first example of the use of exercise in 'correcting false English' syntax and a set of example sentences are included in chapters 4, "Examples of Bad English under all the rules of syntax", and 5, "Promiscuous Exercises or, examples under all the rules" in the 3rd edition. Shaw claims Alston (1965) thought that as 3rd edition is said to have been authored by D Fischer 2nd edition could have been a joint endevaour between the two. | ||
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