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The country-Man's conductor in reading and writing true English, [electronic resource] : Containing such Rules as the author, by near Forty Years Practice in Teaching, hath found Necessary and Useful to that end. Printed chiefly for the use of the author's own school, and may also be useful to all Teachers, Parents, Masters of Families, and Single-Persons, to improve themselves, their Children and Families, in good English. To which are added, some examples of the English of our honourable ancestors, and also of our Western Dialect. And some arithmetical rules to be learnt by children, before or as soon as they are put to Writing. By John White, sometime Master of Mr. Chilcot's English-Free-School in Tiverton, and now Master of a Boarding-School in Butterly, near Tiverton aforesaid.
by White, John, master of a boarding-school. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1701Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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A short sketch of English grammar. [electronic resource] : Intended for the use of such as study that language only. Consisting of a few rules, abstracted chiefly from Johnson, Lowth, Ash, &c. By the Observance of which, a Person wholly unacquainted with any other Language, may learn to speak and write english, Not only intelligibly, but with tolerable Propriety. To which is added, a table, exhibiting, at One View, the declinable parts of speech, with their Sub-Divisions. By Wells Egelsham, printer.
by Egelsham, Wells, d. 1786. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLXXX. [1780] [1779[Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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A short view of English grammar. [electronic resource] : In a method intirely new. Containing, I. The Doctrine of the Eight Parts of Speech, together with their Signs to know them. II. The Declension of Substantives, Regular, Irregular, Defective, and Redundant, with their Articles and Signs. III. A Table of Adjectives in the three Degrees of Comparison; and how they form Abstracts and Adverbs. IV. The Declension of Pronouns, Substantive and Adjective, Simple and Compound. V. A Table of the Themes of Verbs, with their Government; also their Conjugation and Application of their Signs. VI. A Table of Participles of all Kinds, together with the Gerunds. Vii. The most remarkable Original Adverbs, Simple and Compounded, disposed Alphabetically. Viii. Prepositions and their Government: Also those called Inseparable, and other Syllables borrowed from the Latin in Words compounded. IX. A Summary of Syntax, shewing the Concord and Government of Words join'd in Speech. X. Prosody, shewing the various Ways of accenting Words. XI. The principal and ornamental Rules of Rhetoric, necessary to understand an English Author in Prose or Poetry. XII. Lastly, The Terms explain'd; and an Account of the Stops and Marks in Writing. For the use of schools. By John Stirling, M. A. Vicar of Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Gordon.
by Stirling, John, d. 1777. Edition: The second edition corrected.Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXL. [1740]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The practical grammar [electronic resource] : or, an easy way to understand English. In which The Rules are laid down in a Manner entirely New; and the Whole rendered so easy, familiar, and entertaining, that a Child of only Eight Years of Age may be perfectly initiated into a Knowledge of the English Tongue, with the greatest Expedition and Pleasure. To which is added, a poetical epitome of grammar, for the help of memory. With a supplement, Containing Examples of bad English to be turned into good, with the good opposite, in order to illustrate every Rule of Syntax, or the Composition of Sentences; and A Short english grammar, upon the plan of the Latin, for the Use of such as are designed for the Study of that Language. Throughout the Whole, whatever is New is delivered in an easy, agreeable Manner; and what was before known, is placed in a Light quite new and amusing. By Thomas Smetham, Master of the Academy at Southgate, and late Master of the Boarding School at Ponder's End.
by Smetham, Thomas. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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A practical new grammar, [electronic resource] : with exercises of bad English: or, an easy guide to speaking and writing the English language properly and correctly containing. I. Orthography; or True Spelling, which treats of the Sounds and Uses of the several Letters in all Positions; of the Division of Words into Syllables, and the Use of Points. II. Prosody; Or the Art of Pronouncing Syllables in Words truly, with Tables of Words properly accented. III. Etymology; or the Kinds of Words, which explains the several Parts of Speech; their Derivations and different Endings; Change and Likeness to one another. IV. Syntax; or Construction, which teaches how to connect Words aright in a Sentence, or Sentences together. To which is added, a curious and useful appendix. By A. Fisher.
by Fisher, A. (Anne), 1719?-1778. Edition: The eleventh edition, enlarged and much improved.Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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