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In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to b
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This book investigates the connections between evaluative judgements on language and the larger social, cultural, and political issues that shed light on the pr
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This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.