By English grammar, History of English

You're very welcome, Sandie. As to books and websites on grammar, you have to be very, very careful. Traditional grammars, the kind that are found most in bookstores, are full of inaccuracies on language. In many cases these inaccuracies have been simply transferred wholesale to websites....

Prescriptive Grammar - Centuries of ErrorHOW GRAMMARS OF ENGLISH HAVE MISSED THE BOAT THERE'S BEEN MORE FLUMMOXING THAN MEETS THE EYE Charles-James N. Bailey Consider the possibility that English grammar has been misanalysed for centuries because of grammarians’ accepting fundamentally...

Hi, this is just a cut & paste job from various internet resources: 1 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 2 The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar 3 Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 4 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (7 parts) 5 Pocket Fowler's Modern...