Robert Lowth's Grammar

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Compiled a grammar book for growing middle class for guidance on how to use 'polite' or 'correct' English
Re-issued around 45 times between 1762 and 1800
Most influential of all grammar books
It included a list of irregular verbs including forms of the past tense and past participle(no longer in use)
Break, brake, or broken, broken
Help, [helped] holpen
Get, gat, or got, gotten ('to get')