Harvey’s Grammar is Classical Writing’s top choice for a grammar program for its depth and pace, as well as the excellent sentences used for practice. While you may choose another grammar text, be aware that other grammar programs tend to move slower and cover less material than Harvey’s Grammar.

Either of Harvey’s texts, Elementary Grammar and Composition or Revised English Grammar may be used with Classical Writing’s Homer, Diogenes: Maxim, and Diogenes: Chreia.

So far we have written two workbooks to accompany Harvey’s Elementary Grammar and Composition, making it extremely easy to work through the text. Each lesson in the workbook includes all the exercises to be completed, with every line presented in workbook format.

When writing the two workbooks, we used the 1880 edition of Harvey’s Elementary Grammar and Composition. However, the 1986 Mott Media version of Harvey’s Elementary Grammar can be used with the workbooks as well. Do use our Answer Key. It is exhaustive, and often when you puzzle over a grammar answer, working backwards from the answer key is excellent training in grammatical reasoning. The Answer Key also includes diagramming solutions to every sentence. We diagrammed even more sentences than Harvey originally asked for, making the workbooks and the Answer Key an excellent diagramming curriculum also.

Part 1 of the Workbooks and Answer Keys covers the sections in Harvey’s Elementary Grammar needed to be taught along with Homer, and Part 2 covers the sections to be taught along with Diogenes: Maxim and Diogenes: Chreia.