David Crystal is known throughout the world as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster on language. He has published extensively on the history and development of English, including The Story of English in 100 Words, Spell It Out, The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation, and The Story of Be.
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In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as 'preposition' and 'conjunction' now often conf... SEE MORE