The (Melo)drama of English Grammar

By William Germano. I’ve been browsing through 19th-century grammar books. Yes, on purpose.
On my desk is an 1846 copy of The Principles of English Grammar; Comprising the Substance of the Most Approved English Grammars Extant, With Copious Exercises in Parsing and Syntax; and an Appendix of Various and Useful Matter, a popular text by the Rev. Peter Bullions, D.D., professor of language in the Albany (New York) Academy. More...