English Grammar - Orthography Letters Syllables Words

<p>Grammar as an art is the power of reading writing and speaking correctly. As an acquisition it is the essential skill of scholarship. As a study it is the practical science which teaches the right use of language.</p><p> </p><p>An English Grammar is a book which professes to explain the nature and structure of the English language; and to show on just authority what is and what is not good English.</p><p> </p><p><strong>ENGLISH GRAMMA</strong>R in itself is the art of reading writing and speaking the English language correctly. It implies in the adept such knowledge as enables him to avoid improprieties of speech; to correct any errors that may occur in literary compositions; and to parse or explain grammatically whatsoever is rightly written.</p><p> </p><p><em>To read</em> is to perceive what is written or printed so as to understand the words and be able to utter them with their proper sounds.</p><p> </p><p><em>To write</em> is to express words and thoughts by letters or characters made with a pen or other instrument.</p><p> </p><p><em>To speak</em> is to utter words orally in order that they may be heard and understood. Grammar like every other liberal art can be properly taught only by a regular analysis or systematic elucidation of its component parts or principles; and these parts or principles must be made known chiefly by means of definitions and examples rules and exercises.</p>