Beginning of English

English grammar begins late in the 16th century with the first pamphlet for grammar by William Bullokar; written with the seeming goal of demonstrating that English was quite as rule-bound as Latin Grammar. Bullokar wrote his grammar in English and used a reformed spelling system of his own invention. The focus was on tradition, however, believed the role that other social forces had already begun to play in the early 17th century. 

On the other hand, English grammar began to reach a wider audience within Britain itself beyond the erstwhile readership of learned, privileged, such as women, merchants, tradesman and even schoolboys. By the end of the 17th century English grammar writing had made a modest start. By the end of the 18th century the pace was brisk; 270 new titles were added during that century, most new books took claiming that the needs of their particular target audience were still unmet or that a particular grammatical point had not been treated adequately in the pre-existing texts, or often times, both.

In the 18th century the English grammar taught its readers to express themselves with propriety and to accurately evaluate constructions for correctness. Consequently, the book offered a two-tier discourse: elementary statements of the rules in main text and more nuanced analyses of errors.

It was during the 19th century that modern- language studies became systematized and it was later expanded to appeal to students in Britain as well, from young men preparing for the various professional examinations for the teaching and study of English as a foreign language, included a full description of the intonation patterns of English.

Now, English Grammar is the body of rules that describe the structure of expressions which includes wards, phrases, clauses and sentences. A text that contains more than one sentence is no longer in the realm of grammar but of discourse. 

The Grammar of a language is approached in two ways i.e. Descriptive and Prescriptive. Descriptive grammar is based on analysis of text corpora and describes grammatical structures, whereas prescriptive grammar attempts to use the identified rules of a given language as a tool to govern the linguistic behaviour of speakers. This explanation predominantly concerns itself with descriptive grammar.