G. H. Vallins

NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITIONIn this edition a number of corrections and a few additions have been made. I am grateful to reviewers and correspondents who have pointed out errors and omissions ; in particular, to Studienrat Eitzen of Hamburg, who put me right on several matters of detail and suggested...

PRELUDE The antic haverings of-a pedantic pedestrianism in quest of Pure English are rapidly producing a new form of Addison's Disease—for Addison was the first to complain that 'the late war had adulterated our tongue with strange words'. —C. K. Ogden : Basic English. The Scope and Aims...

PREFACEIn this book an attempt has been made to present in dictionary form the main elements in the accidence and syntax of the English language, both spoken and written. Spelling, punctuation, pronunciation, and idiom have their place in the scheme of what is intended to be a dictionary of grammar...