1886 printing of 1886 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts and as Late Supervisor in the Boston Schools. An elementary grammar that assumes students have already received some instruction in composition in primary and grammar school. Includes study of parts of speech as well as arrangement, construction, inflection, and its substitutes. The illustration of principles precedes their technical naming; technical names not related to grammatical distinctions are excluded. The appendix covers idiomatic expressions and their history as well as difficult and doubtful constructions. Part one covers the sentence and some parts of speech; part two covers more parts of speech, moods, and tenses; part three covers syntax and punctuation; part four covers irregular parts of speech and more complex arrangements as well as methods of analysis. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 113 page text.
1855 printing. The author is credited as a North American Teacher. A grammar handbook focusing on definitions of the parts of speech. It is heavy on diagrams, and it also uses parsing lessons, and errors, and false syntax. The Schultz Archive copy contains readable odd numbered pages, while the even numbered pages are partially cut off. It is unclear how much of the text has been copied, as there is no TOC.
1856 printing of 1856 copyrighted text. The author is credited as the author of Analysis, and First Lessons. Part one contains introductory and oral exercises using familiar objects and the inductive method. Objects are analyzed through their qualities, actions, and relations. Part two states the principles of English grammar in rules and definitions to be committed to memory and applied in exercises. This version has been abridged from the author's Elements of English Grammar. The text is broken into five parts: Introductory, orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 192 page text.
1830 printing of the second edition, improved. 1830 copyright. Includes several recommendations from teachers. The first lessons contain only definitions, rules, and examples, with the explanations to be provided by oral instruction. The teach the moods and tenses of verbs, the book uses diagrams, which have been tested in classrooms. External objects are also incorporated to aid students' processing, as is the principal of local association. The diagrams include pictorial illustrations
A grammar handbook that features diagrams and examples to focus on tenses. The Schultz Archive copy seems to be roughly the complete text, but there is no TOC.