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""Definitions, explanations and illustrations of the parts of speech, and of the other most important technical terms of grammar. Incorporating Strunk's Guide to Style explaining how to write well and the main pitfalls to avoid.""

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Curious and brilliant. --The Spectator [Gwynne] brings a bewitching zeal--and a defiantly old-fashioned approach--to the study of English grammar and usage. . . . Gwynne's Grammar has its undeniable pleasures. --The Boston Globe Unflinchingly, unapologetically rear-guard . . . with not the least wisp of dumbing-down. . . . His definitions--terse, logical, precise--are among the best things in the book. --The Wall Street Journal A sprightly handbook . . . The examples are lively, the advice direct and confident. Some of it, once heard, won't be forgotten. . . . Gwynne's certainty is infectious. --First Things Warm and utterly self-assured . . . Refreshingly opinionated . . . [Gwynne] is an unashamed prescriptivist . . . [and his] judgment is unambiguous . . . It doesn't matter how many academic linguists tell us that language changes over time . . . Educated people still want to know whether they should write 'amuck' or 'amok, ' 'between' or 'among'. --The Weekly Standard Dynamite to modern, child-centered education: a guide to the forgotten rudiments of the English Language. --Daily Telegraph (UK) Witty, engaging and highly educational stuff. --Times Educational Supplement (London)

Curious and brilliant. -The Spectator [Gwynne] brings a bewitching zeal-and a defiantly old-fashioned approach-to the study of English grammar and usage. . . . Gwynne's Grammar has its undeniable pleasures. -The Boston Globe Unflinchingly, unapologetically rear-guard . . . with not the least wisp of dumbing-down. . . . His definitions-terse, logical, precise-are among the best things in the book. -The Wall Street Journal A sprightly handbook . . . The examples are lively, the advice direct and confident. Some of it, once heard, won't be forgotten. . . . Gwynne's certainty is infectious. -First Things Warm and utterly self-assured . . . Refreshingly opinionated . . . [Gwynne] is an unashamed prescriptivist . . . [and his] judgment is unambiguous . . . It doesn't matter how many academic linguists tell us that language changes over time . . . Educated people still want to know whether they should write 'amuck' or 'amok,' 'between' or 'among'. -The Weekly Standard Dynamite to modern, child-centered education: a guide to the forgotten rudiments of the English Language. -Daily Telegraph (UK) Witty, engaging and highly educational stuff. -Times Educational Supplement (London)

[A] sprightly handbook . . . The examples are lively, the advice direct and confident. Some of it, once heard, won't be forgotten . . . Gwynne's certainty is infectious. When it comes to matters of language, people want order, clarity, and wit, not mushiness . . . The coercions of political correctness sway him not at all, and the sentimentality that urges us to respect the will and creativity of individuals, especially children, is altogether ousted . . . Therein lies the pleasure of the text. Not only does it reject the liberalization of usage, it counterattacks. --Mark Bauerlein, First Things Mr. Gwynne is unflinchingly, unapologetically rear-guard . . . The personality of its author is not the least attraction of Gwynne's Grammar . . . [a book] with not the least wisp of dumbing-down in his composition . . . [He] does not deny that grammar can be hellishly complicated . . . [and] his definitions - terse, logical, precise - are among the best things in the book . . . I feel a certain elegance in what I have been taught and still take to be correct English. --Joseph Epstein, The Wall Street Journal [Gwynne] is more in the mold of an 18th- or 19th-century grammarian than a modern-day prescriptivist . . . [His appeal ] has been less about the rules themselves and more about his ability to invoke pre-1960s, cold-shower rigor . . . For hundreds of years, English-speakers have reveled in scolding each other and being scolded about language . . . In another century someone may be quoting Gwynne with equal fondness, while our great-grandchildren take pleasure in getting scolded all over again... Gwynne's Grammar has its undeniable pleasures. --Britt Peterson, The Boston Globe Warm and utterly self-assured . . . Refreshingly opinionated . . . [Gwynne] is an unashamed prescriptivist . . . [and his] judgment is unambiguous . . . It doesn't matter how many academic linguists tell us that language changes over time . . . Educated people still want to know whether they should write 'amuck' or 'amok, ' 'between' or 'among'. --Barton Swaim, The Weekly Standard Dynamite to modern, child-centered education: a guide to the forgotten rudiments of the English Language. --Elizabeth Grice, Daily Telegraph Curious and brilliant . . . it is wonderful that his crisp, lucid book has at last been embraced by the many. --Charles Moore, The Spectator Witty, engaging and highly educational stuff. --Times Educational Supplement A very useful, pertinent summary and it deserves both to be used and enjoyed. --Tony Little, head master, Eton College Invaluable. --Writing Magazine

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Formerly a successful businessman, N. M. Gwynne has for many years been teaching just about every sort of subject to just about every sort of pupil in just about every sort of circumstance—English, Latin, Greek, French, German, mathematics, history, classical philosophy, natural medicine, the elements of music and “How to start up and run your own business”—in lecture-halls, large classrooms, small classrooms and homes—to pupils aged from two years old to over seventy—of many different nationalities and in several different countries—and since 2007 “face-to-face” over the Internet. English grammar has been the basis of many of the subjects he has taught. His teaching methods are very much in accordance with the traditional, common-sense ones, refined over the centuries, that were used almost everywhere until they were abolished worldwide in the 1960s and subsequently. His teaching has been considered sufficiently remarkable—both in its unusualness in today’s world and in its genuinely speedy effectiveness—to have featured in newspaper and magazine articles and on television and radio programmes.  

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