With books on grammar flooding the literary market, one more might seem a superfluity. Mr. Viswanathan Nair’s book, however, is unique in every respect, refreshingly different from the lot. Most of the books deal either traditional or modern grammar. Though not overtly stated, one can watch the path English grammar has trodden from the beginning to date. The advocates of Modern Grammar are inclined to scoff at Traditional Grammarians with statements like ‘The Adverb is a literary ragbag into which words that cannot be classified are thrown’. Just as T.S. Eliot requires every new aspirating poet to have an awareness of the history of poetry from Homer to the present day, Sri Nair has conclusively established that English Grammar is an overflowing stream and that Modern Grammar is a supplement to and not a substitute for Traditional Grammar.