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In an age when the truth and inherent nature of everything is routinely questioned, it should come as no surprise that grammar education has come to be regarded as unnecessary and even pernicious. Teachers advocate integrated approaches in what are essentially programs designed to facilitate language learning by osmosis—students will "pick up" the rules of English by reading and writing on their own much better than when they are subjected to rote memorization of the parts of speech and the drudgery of sentence diagramming.

This view is about 100 years old....and the one that preceded it stretched from roughly the 8th century B.C. in Greece to the early part of the 20th century across the whole Western world. While length of tradition is no argument in itself, the fact that so many great intellectuals were the product of the direct approach to grammar instruction (and the fact that so few of similar ability remain) should count for something. Grammar formed the basis on which the rest of one's education was built—the "grammar stage" of Classical education was just that, a solid grounding in the nature and usage of language intended to facilitate literacy, critical thinking and the ability to form ideas from existing facts.

It's hard to find a good definition of grammar, largely because its importance has been questioned and its content ignored for so long. Currently it's most often described as the rules regulating language, but this is only part of the story. Grammar is the system of usage employed for a language to facilitate and codify meaning. In simpler terms, grammar is rules that do regulate language for the explicit purpose of aiding universal understanding among speakers of that language. If such linguistic governance does not exist, people who ostensibly speak the same language will not understand each other.

A commonly identified problem among those educated in the United States is that they retain a certain form of illiteracy from their earliest years through high school and even college. They can identify and even read words, but they cannot interpret them in any meaningful way and they certainly cannot form complex ideas or thoughts based on what they read. There are (as with anything) a variety of contributing factors, but one of the most basic is the lack of direct grammar education they receive.

To design a bridge one must first be fluent in the laws of physics and mathematics employed in such an undertaking. The same principle applies to language—in order to understand what sentences, paragraphs and books mean, a student must first understand why words are arranged as they are, why punctuation works the way it does, what different kinds of words exist and why they must change form depending on context, even what context itself is. Grammar is that study, and it is not simply an end in itself, it is the foundation for the very thing toward which education aims: comprehension.

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Analytical Grammar High School Reinforcement: Great British Authors
by Robin Finley & Erin Karl
from Analytical Grammar
for 9th-12th grade
in Analytical Grammar (Location: GRA-AG)
$20.00
Analytical Grammar High School Reinforcement: World Authors
by Robin Finley & Erin Karl
from Analytical Grammar
for 9th-12th grade
in Analytical Grammar (Location: GRA-AG)
$20.00
Analytical Grammar Level 1: Grammar Basics - Student Worktext
by Robin Finley
Revised from Analytical Grammar
for 4th-5th grade
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$29.00
Analytical Grammar Level 2: Mechanics - Student Worktext
by Robin Finley
Revised from Analytical Grammar
for 4th-5th grade
in Analytical Grammar (Location: GRA-AG)
$29.00
Analytical Grammar Level 3: Parts of Speech - Student Worktext
by Robin Finley
Revised from Analytical Grammar
for 6th-12th grade
in Analytical Grammar (Location: GRA-AG)
$32.00
Analytical Grammar Level 4: Phrases and Clauses - Student Worktext
by Robin Finley
Revised from Analytical Grammar
for 6th-12th grade
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$29.00
Analytical Grammar Level 5: Punctuation and Usage - Student Worktext
by Robin Finley
Revised from Analytical Grammar
for 6th-12th grade
in Analytical Grammar (Location: GRA-AG)
$32.00
Applications of Grammar Book 3
Applications of Grammar Series
by Garry Moes
2nd edition from Christian Liberty Press
for 9th-10th grade
in Clearance: English & Language Arts (Location: ZCLE-LAN)
$12.00 $6.00 (3 in stock)
Applications of Grammar Book 4
Applications of Grammar Series
by Edward Shewan & Garry Moes
2nd edition from Christian Liberty Press
for 10th-11th grade
in Clearance: English & Language Arts (Location: ZCLE-LAN)
$12.00
Applications of Grammar Book 5
Applications of Grammar Series
by Annie Lee Sloan
from Christian Liberty Press
for 11th-12th grade
in Clearance: English & Language Arts (Location: ZCLE-LAN)
$9.00
Applications of Grammar Book 6
Applications of Grammar Series
by Annie Lee Sloan
from Christian Liberty Press
for 12th grade
in Clearance: English & Language Arts (Location: ZCLE-LAN)
$12.00 $8.00 (1 in stock)
Classical Composition Book III - Student Book
by James A. Selby
2nd edition from Memoria Press
for 6th-8th grade
in Memoria Press Classical Composition (Location: WRI-MPCC)
$21.95
Daily Grams Grade 3 - Student Workbook
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 3rd grade
Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$15.95
Daily Grams Grade 3 - Teacher Edition
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 3rd grade
Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$34.95 $17.50 (1 in stock)
Daily Grams Grade 4 - Student Workbook
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 4th grade
Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$15.95
Daily Grams Grade 4 - Teacher Edition
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 4th grade
Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$34.95 $18.50 (1 in stock)
Daily Grams Grade 5 - Student Workbook
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 5th grade
Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$15.95
Daily Grams Grade 5 - Teacher Edition
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 5th grade
Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$34.95
Daily Grams Grade 6 - Student Workbook
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 6th grade
Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$15.95
Daily Grams Grade 6 - Teacher Edition
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 6th grade
Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$34.95
Daily Grams Grade 7 - Student Workbook
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 7th grade
Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$15.95
Daily Grams Grade 7 - Teacher Edition
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 7th grade
Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$34.95
Daily Language Review 5
by Jo Ellen Moore
from Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
for 5th grade
in Evan-Moor Grammar (Location: ZCLE-EM)
$21.99 $14.00 (2 in stock)
Daily Language Review 6
by Jo Ellen Moore
from Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
for 6th grade
in Evan-Moor Grammar (Location: ZCLE-EM)
$14.00
Easy Grammar Grade 1 - Teacher Edition
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 2nd grade
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$34.95
Easy Grammar Grade 2 - Student Workbook
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
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$15.95
Easy Grammar Grade 2 - Teacher Edition
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 2nd grade
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$34.95
Easy Grammar Grade 2 - Teacher Edition (old cover)
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 2nd grade
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$26.95
Easy Grammar Grade 3
by Wanda Phillips
2nd edition from Easy Grammar Systems
for 3rd grade
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$35.95 $24.00 (1 in stock)
Easy Grammar Grade 3 - Student Test Booklet
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 3rd grade
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$6.95
Easy Grammar Grade 3 - Student Workbook
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 3rd grade
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$16.95
Easy Grammar Grade 4
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
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$35.95 $24.00 (2 in stock)
Easy Grammar Grade 4 - Student Test Booklet
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 4th grade
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$6.95
Easy Grammar Grade 4 - Student Workbook
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 4th grade
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$16.95
Easy Grammar Grade 5
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
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$39.95 $25.00 (3 in stock)
Easy Grammar Grade 5 - Student Test Booklet
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 5th grade
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$6.95
Easy Grammar Grade 5 - Student Workbook
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 5th grade
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$16.95
Easy Grammar Grade 6
by Wanda Phillips
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$39.95
Easy Grammar Grade 6 - Student Test Booklet
by Wanda Phillips
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for 6th grade
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$6.95
Easy Grammar Grade 6 - Student Workbook
by Wanda Phillips
from Easy Grammar Systems
for 6th grade
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$16.95
Easy Grammar Plus
by Wanda Phillips
2nd edition from Easy Grammar Systems
for 7th-8th grade
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$39.95 $25.00 (2 in stock)
Easy Grammar Plus - Student Workbook
by Wanda Phillips
2nd edition from Easy Grammar Systems
for 7th-8th grade
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$16.95
Easy Grammar Ultimate Grade 10 - Student Test Booklet
by Wanda Phillips
2nd edition from Easy Grammar Systems
for 10th grade
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$9.95
Easy Grammar Ultimate Grade 11 - Student Test Booklet
by Wanda Phillips
2nd edition from Easy Grammar Systems
for 11th grade
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$9.95
Easy Grammar Ultimate Grade 8 - Student Test Booklet
by Wanda Phillips
2nd edition from Easy Grammar Systems
for 8th grade
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$9.95 $6.00 (1 in stock)
Easy Grammar Ultimate Grade 9 - Student Test Booklet
by Wanda Phillips
2nd edition from Easy Grammar Systems
for 9th grade
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$9.95 $6.00 (2 in stock)
Easy Grammar Ultimate Grade 9 - Teacher Edition
by Wanda Phillips
1st edition from Easy Grammar Systems
for 9th grade
in Easy Grammar / Daily Grams (Location: GRA-EGDG)
$35.95
Editor in Chief Beginning 1
from Critical Thinking Books
for 2nd-3rd grade
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$14.99 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Editor In Chief Beginning 2
by Michael Baker, et. al.
from Critical Thinking Books
for 3rd-4th grade
in Editor in Chief (Location: GRA-EDIT)
$15.99
Editor in Chief Level 1
by Cherie A. Plant, Nancy Rowe
from Critical Thinking Books
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$19.99
Editor in Chief Level 2
by Cherie A. Plant, Nancy Rowe
from Critical Thinking Books
for 6th-8th grade
in Editor in Chief (Location: GRA-EDIT)
$20.99
Editor in Chief Level 3
by Carrie Beckwith, et. al.
1st edition from Critical Thinking Books
for 9th-12th grade
in Editor in Chief (Location: GRA-EDIT)
$24.99
English 2 - Student Worktext
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 2nd grade
in BJU Writing & Grammar (Location: GRA-BJU)
$36.11
English 2 - Tests
6th edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 2nd grade
in BJU Writing & Grammar (Location: GRA-BJU)
$19.66
English 3 - Assessments
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 3rd grade
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$19.66
English 3 - CLP Test Packet
3rd edition from Christian Liberty Press
for 3rd grade
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$5.75
English 3 - Student Worktext
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 3rd grade
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$36.11
English 4 - Assessments
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 4th grade
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$19.66 $13.00 (1 in stock)
English 4 - Student Worktext
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 4th grade
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$36.11
English 5 - Assessments
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 5th grade
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$19.66
English 5 - CLP Test Packet (old)
from Christian Liberty Press
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$4.00
English 5 - Student Worktext
3rd edition from Bob Jones University Press
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$36.11
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from Christian Liberty Press
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$5.75
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2nd edition from Bob Jones University Press
for 6th grade
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$36.11
English 6 - Tests
2nd edition from Bob Jones University Press
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$19.66 $10.50 (1 in stock)
English Grammar Recitation II - Student Book
by Ashley Gratto, Cheryl Lowe
from Memoria Press
for 4th-6th grade
$13.60
English Grammar Recitation III - Student Book
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from Memoria Press
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$13.60
English Grammar Recitation III - Teacher Manual
by Ashley Gratto, Cheryl Lowe
from Memoria Press
for 4th-6th grade
$14.65
English Grammar Recitation IV - Student Book
by Ashley Gratto, Cheryl Lowe
1st edition from Memoria Press
for 4th-6th grade
$13.60
First Language Lessons Level 3 - Workbook
by Jessie Wise & Sara Buffington
from Well-Trained Mind Press
for 3rd-4th grade
in First Language Lessons (Location: GRA-FLL)
$24.95
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First Language Lessons
by Jessie Wise and Sara Buffington
from Well-Trained Mind Press
for 4th-5th grade
in First Language Lessons (Location: GRA-FLL)
$24.95
Grammar Bytes! Inventions
by Curt Bumcrot
1st edition from Basic Skills
for 4th-6th grade
in Miscellaneous Grammar Curriculum (Location: GRA-MISC)
$10.50 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Grammar Land
by George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold
from Blue Sky Daisies
for 3rd-8th grade
in The Mother Tongue Grammar (Location: GRA-MOTHER)
$9.95
Jensen's Format Writing
by Frode Jensen
2nd edition from Master Books
Writing Curriculum for 7th-12th grade
in Jensen's English (Location: GRA-JENSEN)
$21.59 $15.00 (1 in stock)
Jensen's Format Writing - DVD Supplement
by Frode Jensen
3rd edition from Wordsmiths
Writing Curriculum for 7th-12th grade
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$20.00 $15.00 (1 in stock)
Jensen's Grammar
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from Master Books
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$35.99 $22.00 (1 in stock)
Jensen's Grammar - DVD Supplement
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$26.40 $20.00 (1 in stock)
Jensen's Punctuation
by Frode Jensen
from Wordsmiths
for 6th-9th grade
$15.00
Jensen's Punctuation
by Frode Jensen
2nd edition from Master Books
for 6th-9th grade
in Jensen's English (Location: GRA-JENSEN)
$21.59 $15.00 (1 in stock)
Jensen's Vocabulary
by Frode Jensen
from Master Books
for 7th-10th grade
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$28.79
Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 6
by Kristin Pratt
from Master Books
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$39.19
Language Smarts Level B
by Judy Wilson Goddard
from Critical Thinking Books
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in Critical Thinking Language Smarts (Location: GRA-CTLS)
$42.99
Language Smarts Level C
by Judy Wilson Goddard
from Critical Thinking Books
for 2nd grade
in Critical Thinking Language Smarts (Location: GRA-CTLS)
$42.99
Language Smarts Level D
by Judy Wilson Goddard
from Critical Thinking Books
for 3rd grade
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$42.99
Mastering Punctuation 1 - Workbook
from Basic Skills
for 4th-6th grade
in Miscellaneous Grammar Curriculum (Location: GRA-MISC)
$12.00
Mastering Punctuation 2 - Workbook
from Basic Skills
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$12.00
Mother Tongue - Student Workbook 1
by George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold
1st edition from Blue Sky Daisies
for 6th-10th grade
in The Mother Tongue Grammar (Location: GRA-MOTHER)
$16.95
Mother Tongue - Student Workbook 2
by George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold
1st edition from Blue Sky Daisies
for 6th-10th grade
in The Mother Tongue Grammar (Location: GRA-MOTHER)
$17.95
Rules of the Game 1
by Mary Page, Peter Guthrie & Sloan Sable
from Educators Publishing Service
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$17.99 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Rules of the Game 2
by Mary Page, Peter Guthrie & Sloan Sable
from Educators Publishing Service
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$17.99 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Rules of the Game 3
by Mary Page, Peter Guthrie & Sloan Sable
from Educators Publishing Service
for 9th-10th grade
in Miscellaneous Grammar Curriculum (Location: GRA-MISC)
$17.99
Sentence Diagramming Beginning
by Angela Carter
from Critical Thinking Books
for 3rd-12th grade
in Miscellaneous Grammar Curriculum (Location: GRA-MISC)
$14.99
Shurley English Level 1 - Practice Booklet
by Brenda Shurley
from Shurley English
for 1st-2nd grade
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$5.60
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by Brenda Shurley
2nd edition from Shurley English
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$8.40
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$5.60
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$8.40
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$49.00 $34.30 (1 in stock)
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$8.40 $5.95 (1 in stock)
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$5.60
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