THE ancient notion of English grammar was one of certain categories of words, and certain rules for their proper use. This is still the idea implied in most of the dictionary definitions of the word.

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THIS pamphlet of sixty pages is very unlike what is ordinarily^ understood by an English grammar. It opens with a paragraph of three lines headed “Analysis and Parsing Differentiated.” Then comes a ...