English grammar

by Lillian Kimball Stewart

"English grammar" by Lillian Kimball Stewart is a grammar textbook written in the early 20th century. It explains the principles of modern English usage with clear definitions, practical rules, and plentiful exercises designed to build correct habits of speech and confident sentence analysis for school use. The coverage moves step by step from sentences and parts of speech to phrases, clauses, sentence types, and punctuation, keeping a strong focus on practice supported by teacher guidance. The opening of this textbook states its practical aim—mastery through imitation, practice, and reasoning—presents a carefully sequenced plan, and then begins instruction. It defines sentences (especially declarative ones), subjects and predicates, simple subjects and nouns (common vs. proper), verbs, and pronouns; adds compound subjects and predicates and transposed word order; and introduces interrogative sentences. Next come adjectives and adverbs (including series and placement), phrases (adjective and adverbial) and sentence analysis, prepositions and their objects with careful usage notes, and independent elements (terms of address and exclamatory nouns). It then treats imperative sentences, interjections, and exclamatory sentences; explains conjunctions; distinguishes clauses and simple, compound, and complex sentences; and finishes this opening portion with concise reviews of sentence classification and the eight parts of speech, all reinforced by graduated exercises and model analyses.