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  • The Common School Grammar, Part Second: being a practical grammar of the English Language designed for Grammar Schools

    Document thumbnail: The Common School Grammar, Part Second: being a practical grammar of the English Language designed for Grammar Schools
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1842 printing of 1842 copyrighted text. The second part is for grammar schools, while the first part is for preparatory schools (and includes illustrative engravings).The text rejects the old system of grammar of Murray. It claims to be a proper conservative grammar written for those English speakers who will not study other languages, addressed to the understanding and not the memory. It covers classes of English words (with tables of examples), rules for sentence construction, analysis and parsing, rules of syntax, and includes review questions Includes practical exercises to illustrate every principle and is arranged to explain the differences between its system and the old system. Credits the influence of Wallis, Harris, Horne Tooke, Gilchrist, and Crombie. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the entire text of the second part.
    Creator/Author:
    Fowle, William Bentley, 1826-1902
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    06/09/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/22/2020
    Date Created:
    1842
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • A Practical Grammar of English Language: or, an introduction to composition; in which sentences are classified into verbal forms and phrases

    Document thumbnail: A Practical Grammar of English Language: or, an introduction to composition; in which sentences are classified into verbal forms and phrases
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    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1842 printing of 1842 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts degree and as the author of The Symbolic Spelling-Book, The Speller and Define, and The Panorama of Professions and Trades, or Popular Technology. Text aims to improve upon instruction in English grammar through exhibiting the construction of language in a distinct and systematic manner with practical exercises. The author uses five categories of verbal forms and five categories of phrases for his system (although the chapters are typical parts of speech). Exercises include parsing and imitation, and the work boasts to provide students with knowledge of 6,000 – 8,000 words. Special attention has been given to the conjunction and gerundive. The work has excluded exercises in false syntax, as well as the prosody. The Schultz Archive is roughly the first fifty-five pages of the at least 240 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Hazen, Edward
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/27/2020
    Date Created:
    1842
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • A Concise and Comprehensive Manual of English Grammar: containing, in addition to the first principles and rules briefly stated and explained, a systematic order of parsing, a number of examples for drilling exercises, and a few in false syntax: particularly adapted to the use of common schools and academies

    Document thumbnail: A Concise and Comprehensive Manual of English Grammar: containing, in addition to the first principles and rules briefly stated and explained, a systematic order of parsing, a number of examples for drilling exercises, and a few in false syntax: particularly adapted to the use of common schools and academies
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1842 printing of the 1841 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts and as Teach of the High School in Cambridge, Mass. The preface explains the text is mostly influenced by Murray's Grammar. It uses a clear and systematic order of parsing and explains its principles in simple language to make them understood by students. The Schultz Archive's copy includes preface, first and final chapters.
    Creator/Author:
    Goldsbury, John, 1795-1890
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/18/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/03/2019
    Date Created:
    1842
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • A Practical Grammar: with progressive exercises in orthography, analysis, and grammatical composition

    Document thumbnail: A Practical Grammar: with progressive exercises in orthography, analysis, and grammatical composition
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1842 printing of the 1842 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts degree and as Professor of Belles Lettres in the High School of Philadelphia. Seeks to address the insufficiency in teaching grammar through parsing alone. It maintains the common forms of classification, but treats orthography more fully than usual, shortens the section on construction, expands the rules of arrangement, and uses oral and written exercises. Derivation has been moved to the appendix. Although it maintains much of Lowth and Murray, the work credits the heavy influence of M'Culloch. The work includes pictorial illustrations, especially in the sections of writing exercises. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Frost, John, 1800-1859
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/18/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/02/2019
    Date Created:
    1842
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The North American Grammar, Part First: being a practical introduction to English grammar, with illustrative engravings

    Document thumbnail: The North American Grammar, Part First: being a practical introduction to English grammar, with illustrative engravings
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    Copy is only of title page
    Creator/Author:
    Fowle, William Bentley, 1826-1902
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/18/2016
    Date Created:
    1842
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Introduction to English Composition

    Document thumbnail: Introduction to English Composition
    Type:
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    Description/Abstract:
    1842 printing. No copyright date given. No information on the authors is provided. The authors' text begins with a brief discussion of the inefficacy of the previous method of instructing grammar and composition, which included a heavy emphasis on rule memorization and the reading--and subsequent copying of--classic texts. The authors, instead, advocate a more "natural" approach to the acquisition of grammar and composition: practice, object use and familiarity. The authors propose students should be given the chance to copy short pieces by good authors to learn neatness and exactness. They then work with writing about familiar objects, exchanging their work and correcting each other's errors, discussing their work as a class, then having their instructor provide feedback for correction. The authors suggest beginning with concrete objects that are near the students and progressing through to more complex abstract ideas and series of objects in order to assist in the acquisition of composition abilities. The Schultz Archive includes the complete text (although it is a fairly short text), and the quality of the scans is fairly good; however, there are a few places where markings on the text are somewhat distracting.
    Creator/Author:
    Chambers, William, 1800-1883 and Chambers, Robert
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/18/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/07/2019
    Date Created:
    1842
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0