This examination of Richard Montague's grammar as it is manifested in his study, "The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English" (PTQ) proposes that the theory contains significant flaws and raises fundamental methodological questions about the aims of logic and linguistics. The first part of this discussion presents the fragment of English used for analysis in PTQ and the semantic rules and postulates for the fragment. The functioning of the semantic rules is illustrated with an example. The second part assesses the PTQ's success in achieving two of its objectives: (1) construction of a device simulating the competent native speaker's metalinguistic behavior concerning sentences and arguments in the fragment, and (2) introduction of an intensional logic translating extensional English sentences into formulas resembling those of ordinary extensional (predicate) logic. The paper examines the role of the various semantic postulates with respect to these and other objectives. (MSE)