Do it your way

Abstract

This chapter considers language as a human attribute and in some ways like a human organism that lives, fulfils its obligations, responds to new circumstances, and is ready to deal with every sort of demand made upon it. It reviews the nature and organisation of a language that is determined by the language itself and by its community of users. Each person speaks their language in an entirely natural manner, seldomly thinking of what they’re doing when they are speaking. The chapter mentions people that ruminate on how a language is structured and suggest changing bits of the grammar to make it ‘neater’, ‘more logical’, and ‘more graceful’. Others might survey English to consider which parts of the grammar appeared to be rather unkempt and could be tidied up to improve matters.