Excerpt from English Grammar and Business Letter Writing: Condensed and Simplified; In Three Parts Language is the expression of thought by spoken or written words. Words are arranged into sentences, sentences into para graphs, and paragraphs into discourses. Although the words of the English language number hundreds of thousands, but comparatively few are used even by our most fluent writers and speakers. Shakespeare uses but the Bible but the educated writer rarely exceeds while the ignorant peasant is content with a few hundreds. Though their number be great. Words, like animals and plants, may be classified in a few divisions; the basis of classification being the office which the word performs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.