Creator
James Greenwood
Title
An Essay Towards a Practical English Grammar.
Coverage
London
Publisher
John Clark
Date
1722
Subject
2d ed.
Description
When this volume was published, Greenwood (1683?–1737) was second master at St. Paul’s School, London. Although Isaac Watts said that Greenwood had shown “deep knowledge,” there were vituperative critics as well. Charles Gildon charged Greenwood with making the task of learning grammar “more difficult.” And Andrea Guarna called it “the worst Grammar of the English Tongue that I ever saw.”