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Grammar
Zenodotos invented the terms singular, plural, and dual. The
scholars of Alexandria and of the rival academy of Pergamos were the
first to distinguish language into parts of speech, and to give
technical terms to the various functions of words.
The first Greek grammar was by Dionysios Thrax, and it is still
extant. He was a pupil of Aristarchos. Julius Cæsar was the inventor of
the term ablative case.
English grammar is the most philosophical ever devised; and if the
first and third personal pronouns, the
relative pronoun, the 3rd person singular of the present indicative
of verbs, and the verb “to be” could be reformed, it would be as near
perfection as possible.
It was Kaiser Sigismund who stumbled into a wrong gender, and when
told of it replied, “Ego sum Imperator Romanorum, ct supra
grammaticam”' (1520, 1548-1572).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Grammar from Infoplease:
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