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Filtering by: College Arts and Sciences Creator/Author Quackenbos, George Payn, 1826-1881 Date Created 1851 Department English & Comparative Literature Collections The Lucille M. Schultz 19th Century Composition Archive Publisher D. Appleton and Company Subject The Lucille M. Schultz 19th Century Composition Archive

1. First Lessons in Composition: in which the principles of the art are developed in connection with the principles of grammar; embracing full directions on the subject of punctuation with copious exercises

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Description/Abstract:: 1851 printing of the 1851 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts and as Rector of the Henry-Street Grammar School in New York. The text was designed to fill a gap in composition textbooks for students ages 9 to 12. The first fifty pages use inductive lessons with exercises to familiarize students with the nature and use of the different parts of speech so they can recognize them and supply them when given incomplete sentences. Following this the text offers a more difficult treatise on grammar with different kinds of clauses and sentences, preparing the students for the rules of punctuation. Next are capitals and spelling. Then students are ready to express themselves in their own language, prompted with suggestive words to write sentences of every kind. Style is then taught with the properties of purity, propriety, precision, clearness, strength, harmony, and unity with examples for correction. Students are also taught different kinds of composition, such as letters, descriptions, narrations, biographical sketches, essays, and arguments, and three main figures of speech. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
Creator/Author:: Quackenbos, George Payn, 1826-1881
Submitter:: Russel Durst
Date Uploaded:: 05/23/2016
Date Modified:: 08/22/2019
Date Created:: 1851
License:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

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