English language -- Grammar

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• First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar & Co., 1863), by Levi Branson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition (revised edition, 1896), by Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg (Gutenberg text)
• A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases, and Sentences Are Classified According to Their Offices, and Their Various Relations to One Another Illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams (revised edition; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; et al., 1863), by S. W. Clark (multiple formats at Google)

• The First Part of the Elementarie Which Entreateth Chieflie of the Right Writing of our English Tung, by Richard Mulcaster (zipped TEI at OTA)

• The Flat World Knowledge Handbook for Writers (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition, ca. 2011), by Miles McCrimmon (PDF at saylor.org)
• Guide to Grammar and Style (electronic edition, 2008), by Jack Lynch (HTML with commentary at Rutgers)

• Sir Hornbook: or, Childe Launcelot's Expedition: A Grammatico-Allegorical Ballad, by Thomas Love Peacock (HTML at thomaslovepeacock.net)

• Writing for Success (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Scott McLean (PDF at saylor.org)

• Grains of Sense (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1897), by Victoria Welby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Improve Your Written English (fourth edition, 2003), by Marion Field (HTML with commentary at HowTo)
• The Leaning Tower of Babel and Other Affronts from the Underground Grammarian, by Richard Mitchell (HTML at sourcetext.com)
• Less Than Words Can Say, by Richard Mitchell
  • HTML at sourcetext.com
  • multiple formats in Australia
• The Standard of Usage in English (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1908), by Thomas R. Lounsbury (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Good Word Guide (1997; with other Bloomsbury references), ed. by Martin H. Manser (searchable JavaScript-dependent HTML at bloomsbury.com)
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (c1994) (page images at Google)

• The Dean's English: A Criticism on the Dean of Canterbury's Essays on the Queen's English (10th edition; London: Hatchards, 1876), by G. Washington Moon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• English As She Is Wrote: Showing Curious Ways in Which the English Language May be Made to Convey Ideas or Obsure Them (New York: D. Appleton and Co., c1883) (page images at Google; US access only)
• Slips of Speech (1901 edition), by John H. Bechtel (Gutenberg text)
• Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults, by Ambrose Bierce (Gutenberg text)

• A Plea for The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (10th thousand; London: Strahan; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1866), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen's English: A Manual of Idiom and Usage (third edition; London: Strahan and Co.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1870), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen's English: A Manual of Idiom and Usage (seventh edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1888), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling (London: Strahan and Co.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1864), by Henry Alford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The King's English (second edition), by H. W. Fowler (HTML at Bartleby)

• An Anthology of Chancery English, ed. by John H. Fisher, Malcolm Richardson, and Jane Fisher (HTML at Michigan)

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• The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by H. L. Mencken (multiple formats at archive.org)

• First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar & Co., 1863), by Levi Branson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (author's copyright edition; Boston: Robert Bros., 1883), by Edwin A. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• Primer and Language Lessons in English and Cree, by E. B. Glass, trans. by John McDougall (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An American Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; New York: S. Converse, 1828), by Noah Webster
  • Volume I (introductory material, and A-I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I (J-Z, addition, and corrections): multiple formats at archive.org
• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (fourth edition) (HTML at Yahoo)
• The Century Dictionary (12 volumes, including 1910 supplements), ed. by William Dwight Whitney (frame-dependent DjVU and JPEGs at global-language.com)
• A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both With Regard to Sound and Meaning: One Main Object of Which is, To Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard of Pronunciation; To Which is Prefixed a Prosodial Grammar (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for Charles Dilly et al., 1797), by Thomas Sheridan
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (seventh impression of first edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1919), ed. by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Dictionary of the English Language (sixth edition, two volumes; London: Printed for J. F. And C. Rivington, et al., 1785), by Samuel Johnson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Dictionary of the English Language, Explanatory, Pronouncing, Etymological, and Synonymous, With a Copious Appendix (Springfield, MA: G. C. Merriam and Co., 1872), by Noah Webster, Chauncey A. Goodrich, Noah Porter, and William A. Wheeler (page images at MOA)
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (current edition, with additional material) (searchable HTML at m-w.com)
• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (based on the 1913 Merriam-Webster edition)
  • searchable HTML at Chicago
  • A-B: HUGE Gutenberg text
  • C: HUGE Gutenberg text
  • D-E: HUGE Gutenberg text
  • F-H: HUGE Gutenberg text
  • I-L: HUGE Gutenberg text
  • M-O: HUGE Gutenberg text
  • P-Q: HUGE Gutenberg text
  • R: HUGE Gutenberg text
  • S: HUGE Gutenberg text
  • T-W: HUGE Gutenberg text
  • X-Z: Gutenberg text (zipped only)

• A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (second edition; London: Printed for B. Tooke, 1712), by Jonathan Swift
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML with commentary at Rutgers
• A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue, by Jonathan Swift (HTML at Rutgers)
• Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to the Earl of Oxford, about the English Tongue, by Mr. Oldmixon (HTML at Virginia)

• On the Study of Words, by Richard Chenevix Trench (Gutenberg text)

• English Next: Why Global English May Mean the End of "English as a Foreign Language" (c2006), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
• The Future of English? A Guide to Forecasting the Popularity of the English Language in the 21st Century (c2000), by David Graddol (PDF at britishcouncil.org)

• A Few Practical Suggestions (Society for Pure English Tract #3; 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Teacher's Word Book (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1921), by Edward L. Thorndike (multiple formats at archive.org)

• English Next: Why Global English May Mean the End of "English as a Foreign Language" (c2006), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
• The Future of English? A Guide to Forecasting the Popularity of the English Language in the 21st Century (c2000), by David Graddol (PDF at britishcouncil.org)

• English As She Is Wrote: Showing Curious Ways in Which the English Language May be Made to Convey Ideas or Obsure Them (New York: D. Appleton and Co., c1883) (page images at Google; US access only)

• A Few Practical Suggestions (Society for Pure English Tract #3; 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)

• An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities (1956 reprint with commentary), by Elizabeth Elstob, contrib. by Charles Peake (Gutenbgerg text)

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