Where has grammar been hiding all these years? | Macmillan

I came across this article earlier on. Whoops apparently according to the self appointed guardians of the English language, one should never end a sentence with a preposition nor split an infinitive despite the classic example from James Kirk. Perhaps we should all boldly go forward and study Michael Swan's 'Practical English Usage' or Martin Parrot's 'Grammar for English Language Teachers' to consider how the language is used today rather than how it should be used; usually this is based on an 18th century Latin model of grammar and what is the present year 2010, oh yes I almost forgot. Perhaps as David Crystal points out it's time to consider the variety of Englishes used by around 2 billion people throughout the world, the vast majority of whom are non native speakers as opposed to the models used by the 60 million speakers in the UK.

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 Where has  grammar been hiding all these years? Macmillan