There are 184 primary, secondary and grammar schools in the city.

Fees in state grammar schools were eliminated, while new, modern secondary schools were constructed.

In Europe, the grammar school or academy existed from as early as the 16th century ; public schools or fee-paying schools, or charitable educational foundations have an even longer history.

Encyclopedias, public libraries and grammar schools are examples of innovations intended to lower the cost of a classical education.

The basic program was to develop " grammar " schools.

The formal study of grammar is an important part of education for children from a young age through advanced learning, though the rules taught in schools are not a " grammar " in the sense most linguists use the term, particularly as they are often prescriptive rather than descriptive.

These should not be confused with the related, albeit distinct, modern British grammar schools.

Scotland advanced markedly in educational terms during the fifteenth century with the founding of the University of St Andrews in 1413, the University of Glasgow in 1450 and the University of Aberdeen in 1495, and with the passing of the Education Act 1496, which decreed that all sons of barons and freeholders of substance should attend grammar schools.

The first modern grammar schools were established in Welsh towns such as Ruthin, Brecon and Cowbridge.

He then founded a private school catering to wealthy parents in Goshen, New York, and by 1785, he had written his speller, a grammar book and a reader for elementary schools.

Forms of schooling ranged from dame schools to “ Latin ” schools for boys already literate in English and ready to master preparatory grammar for Latin, Hebrew, and Greek.

Reading schools would often be the single source of education for girls, whereas boys would go to the town grammar schools.

Since girls could play no role in the ministry, and since grammar schools were designed to “ instruct youth so far as they may be fited for the university ,” Latin grammar schools did not accept girls ( nor did Harvard ).

" In 1661, New Amsterdam had one grammar school, two free elementary schools, and had licensed 28 masters of school.

Its orations in favour of qualities such as madness spawned a type of exercise popular in Elizabethan grammar schools, later called adoxography, which required pupils to compose passages in praise of useless things.

Various types of secondary schools in England and Wales include grammar schools, comprehensives, secondary moderns, and city academies.

But the real beginnings of this development in him go back to the opposing of grammar school, and probably if it had not been this occasion and these Latin lines it would have been some others, such as the first prolusion, that set off this streak in him of unbridled and scathing verbal attack on an enemy.

Bede quotes from several classical authors, including Cicero, Plautus, and Terence, but he may have had access to their work via a Latin grammar rather than directly.

Context-free languages have many applications in programming languages ; for example, the language of all properly matched parentheses is generated by the grammar.

Instead, a popular theory suggests linguistic updating, which is when " late forms may not in fact have been original to the book but may reflect the updating of vocabulary and grammar by later scribes so their contemporaries could understand the book better.

Postfix notation makes the language easier to parse and extend ; Forth's flexibility makes a static BNF grammar inappropriate, and it does not have a monolithic compiler.

: Bopp's researches, carried with wonderful penetration into the most minute and almost microscopical details of linguistic phenomena, have led to the opening up of a wide and distant view into the original seats, the closer or more distant affinity, and the tenets, practices and domestic usages of the ancient Indo-European nations, and the science of comparative grammar may truly be said to date from his earliest publication.

Martineau also wrote: “ Bopp's Sanskrit studies and Sanskrit publications are the solid foundations upon which his system of comparative grammar was erected, and without which that could not have been perfect.

The term " English grammar ", therefore, may have several meanings.

Various " grammar frameworks " have been developed in theoretical linguistics since the mid 20th century, in particular under the influence of the idea of a " universal grammar " in the United States.

Recently, efforts have begun to update grammar instruction in primary and secondary education.

Though many of the Philippine languages do not have a fully codified grammar, most of them follow the verb aspects that are demonstrated by Filipino or Tagalog.

The two systems have different rules of grammar and some variance in vocabulary.

Some printed editions of Ars Minor, a schoolbook on Latin grammar by Aelius Donatus may have been printed by Gutenberg ; these have been dated either 1451 – 52 or 1455.

He seems to have felt the want of definite principles of etymology without being able to discover them, and indeed even in the first edition of his grammar ( 1819 ) he seemed to be often groping in the dark.

Diez's grammar of the Romance languages is founded entirely on its methods, which have also exerted a profound influence on the wider study of the Indo-European languages in general.

However while some animals may acquire large numbers of words and symbols, none have been able to learn as many different signs as is generally known by an average 4 year old human, nor have any acquired anything resembling the complex grammar of human language.

When he later studied English, he decided that the international language must have a simpler grammar.

Considerations such as these have led Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, Eric Lenneberg and others to argue that the types of grammar the child needs to consider must be narrowly constrained by human biology ( the nativist position ).

Although Chomsky's theory of a generative grammar has been popular with some linguists since the 1950s, many criticisms of the basic assumptions of generative theory have been put forth by cognitive-functional linguistics, who argue that language structure is created through language use.

On the other hand, cognitive-functional theorists use this anthropological data to show how human beings have evolved the capacity for grammar and syntax to meet our demand for linguistic symbols.

In generative grammar, the definition of a morpheme depends heavily on whether syntactic trees have morphemes as leafs or features as leafs.

There have been theatrical performances in Stratford-upon-Avon since at least Shakespeare ’ s day, though the first recorded performance of a play by Shakespeare himself was in 1748 when Parson Joseph Greene, master of Stratford grammar school, organised a charitable production to fund the restoration of Shakespeare's funerary monument.

A joint Sixth Form, of over 500 students is organised with the neighbouring boys ’ grammar Marling School.

The almost universal references to Henryson as schoolmaster are usually taken to mean that he taught in and had some duty to run the grammar school for Dunfermline's abbatial burgh.

A consortium of 25 grammar schools have announced their intention to run a common entry test for 2009 admissions.

One Catholic grammar school, Lumen Christi College, has also announced its intention to run its own tests.

Langdon attended the local grammar school, run by a veteran of the 1745 Siege of Louisbourg against the French at Fortress Louisbourg in New France.

In a narrower sense, a parochial school is a Christian grammar school or high school which is part of, and run by, a parish.

This led to the formation of Presbyterian ' meeting-houses ' and congregations dissenting from the established state Church of Ireland just outside the original town ( 1717 ), originally at Drumillard and then relocating to ' McPhearson's Brae ' ( 1784 ) past Lakeview as now, two seceding congregations at Frankford ( 1750 ) and Garmony's Grove ( 1818 ), and finally another mainstream church at Broomfield ( 1841 ) ( now ' An Eaglais ' Heritage Centre and restaurant ); in addition, a commercial school and classical academy or grammar school run by a minister was set up supplementing local ' hedge schools '.

The boy was enrolled in a grammar school attached to the local seminary run by Augustinians ; their harsh discipline made him a critic of the friars all his life.

The school was founded in 1552 under laws set out in the Charities Act of 1545, which had been passed by Henry VIII to use funds from the dissolution of the monasteries to replace monastic grammar schools such as that run by Bath Abbey.

Parochial schools are typically grammar schools or high schools run by churches, diocese or parishes.

James's first school was in the nearby parish of Middlebie, in Annandale, where his father had become Minister, and from age 13 he attended the grammar school in Dumfries, run by Dr George Chapman.

Three of the pre-2008 sites were those of the former grammar schools when run by the Middlesbrough Education Committee: