High School English Grammar & Composition by Wren and Martin is one of the foremost and popular books on English Grammar to be published in India. The book still finds a mention as one of the most popular books in the history of English Grammar.
High School English Grammar and Composition, written by P.C. Wren and H. Martin is a well known book that's been followed religiously by bibliophiles from around the world. This is just one among the many textbooks that were written by popular linguists Martin and Wren with the core content focusing on English grammar. The book was primarily penned down for the children of British officials during the British Raj in India.
They were immensely popular in Pakistani and Indian schools post the British era and even in missionary educational institutions in Burma. This series of books was published in the year 1935 with a composition that was added later. The material that can be found in these works is mostly based on the book The Manual of English Grammar and Composition by the renowned author J.C. Nestfield.
The other books in this series are A First Book of English Grammar and Composition, A Final Course of Grammar and Composition and Elementary English Grammar.
About The Author
Percival Christopher Wren was a British writer who wrote mostly adventure fiction. He was in military service for a few years under the British Raj in India. Wren is remembered for his work Beau Geste. He also worked with the Educational Inspectorate for Sind and delivered regular lectures at a teacher's training college between 1903 and 1907.
H. Martin, the co-author, was honored as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) during his career.
Table Of Contents
Book I. Grammar
1. The Sentence
2. Subject And Predicate
3. The Phrase And The Clause
4. Parts Of Speech
5. The Noun: Kinds Of Nouns
6. The Noun: Gender
7. The Noun: Number
8. The Noun: Case
9. The Adjective
10. Comparison Of Adjectives
11. Adjectives Used As Nouns
12. Position Of The Adjectives
13. The Correct Use Of Some Adjectives
14. Articles
15. Personal Pronouns
16. Reflexive And Emphatic Pronouns
17. Demonstrative, Indefinite And Distributive Pronouns
18. Relative Pronouns
19. Interrogative Pronouns
20. The Verb
21. Verbs Of Incomplete Predication
22. Active And Passive Voice
23. Mood
24. Tenses: Introduction
25. The Uses Of The Present And Past Tenses
26. The Future
27. The Verb: Person And Number
28. The Infinitive
29. The Participle
30. The Gerund
31. Irregular Verbs
32. Auxiliaries And Modals
33. Conjugation Of The Verb Love
34. The Adverb
35. Comparison Of Adverbs
36. Formation Of Advebs
37. Position Of Adverbs
38. The Preposition
39. Words Followed By Prepositions
40. The Conjunction
41. Some Conjunctions And Their Uses
42. The Interjection
43. The Same Word Used As Different Parts Of Speech
Book Ii. Composition
Part I: Analysis, Transformation And Synthesis
1. Analysis Of Simple Sentences
2. Phrases
3. Clauses
4. Sentences: Simple, Compound And Complex
5. More About Noun Clauses
3. More About Adjective Clauses
6. More About Adverb Clauses
7. Analysis Of Complex Sentences
8. Analysis Of Compound Sentences
9. Transformation Of Sentences
11. Transformation Of Sentences
12. Synthesis Of Sentences
13. Synthesis Of Sentences
14. Synthesis Of Sentences
15. The Sequence Of Tenses
16. Direct And Indirect Speech
Part II: Correct Usage
17. Agreement Of The Verb With The Subject
18. Nouns And Pronouns
19. Adjectives
20. Verbs
21. Adverbs
22. Conjunctions
23. Order Of Words
24. Idioms
25. Idioms
25. Punctuation
26. Spelling Rules
27. The Formation Of Words
28. Figures Of Speech Exercise
Part III: Structures
29. Verb Patterns
30. Question Tags, Short Answers, Etc.
31. More Structures
Part IV: Written Composition Paragraph-Writing
32. Story - Writing
33. Reproduction Of A Story-Poem
34. Letter-Writing
35. Comprehension
36. Precis-Writing
37. Expansion Of Passages
38. Essay-Writing
38. Autobiographies
39. Dialogue-Writing
40. The Appreciation Of Poetry
41. Paraphrasing
