Second, the rule mandating possessives with gerunds used as objects, as in this example, has never been firmly supported even by the titans of traditional grammar.
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The writer says that people see her writings as an art of traditional grammar and she wishes this writing style to get stronger in the future.
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If you dont know, the term " adverb " is mostly a wastebasket label for all the words that traditional grammar doesnt know what to do with.
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Note that this practice takes a subject complement to be something very different from the subject complements of traditional grammar, which are predicative expressions, as just mentioned above.
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Mr . Caines his successor endeavoured to revert St . Benedict's College to a traditional grammar school, tech-voc subjects were removed and co-curricular activities and sports were de-emphasized.
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In addition, Professor Battistella is the author of a number of articles and book chapters on pronoun reference, the syntax of the English verb system, traditional grammar and style.
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Historically, inflected prepositions can develop from the contraction of a preposition with a personal pronoun; however, they are commonly reanalysed as inflected words by native speakers and by traditional grammar.
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Although some traditional grammars consider adpositional phrases and adverbials part of the predicate, many grammars call these elements adjuncts, meaning they are not a required element of the syntactic structure.
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Similar assertions, and an attitude less critical of traditional grammar, may be found in the 1952 and 1956 publications of the Association of Assistant Masters and of the Association of Assistant Mistresses.
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In 1951 E . G . S . Evans reintroduced the idea that a formal approach to the teaching of English, one including a fair proportion of traditional grammar, was the most effective.
