Robert Lowth

“Little attention has been paid to the Grammar of our own Tongue.”

“The Verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer.”

“The English Language hath been much cultivated during the last two hundred years.”

“Our Language is extremely imperfect.”

“A sentence is an assemblage of words, expressed in proper form, and ranged in proper order, and concurring in a full meaning.”

“The principal design of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to express ourselves with propriety in that Language.”

“Prepositions have a government of cases; and in English they always require the objective case after them.”

“Two Negatives in English destroy one another, or are equivalent to an Affirmative.”