The word grammar has its root in Gramma which means ‘letters’ in Greece. It became a base in grammatike techne (the art of letter), a formal Greek grammar. It took the form, grammatica, in Rome. Then, it entered Old French as grammaire and finally Old English replaced a rather informal and complex English grammar, stæfcræft- skill in letters- by grammar.
Lindley Murray ” is known as “the father of English grammar.
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