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The Youth's Catechetical Grammar: or, simple illustration of the principles of the English language adapted to the capacity of the juvenile mind; comprising a philosophical view of orthography, etymology, syntax and prosody, illustrated by appropriate exercises

Type:

Document

Description/Abstract:

1835 printing of the 1834 copyrighted text. The introduction explains the author has taught for ten years and sought to write a text for his own use that comported to his own methods of teaching grammar. He states his text recognizes most of the principles adopted by Murray, but differs in the mode and style of illustrating them. His style of language has been adapted to the juvenile mind and he uses a philosophical mode of parsing and correcting false syntax and orthography to exercise the understanding of the pupil. The text uses numerous questions in each section as a method of exercising students' understanding. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.

Creator/Author:

Gilbert, Eli

Submitter:

Russel Durst

Date Uploaded:

05/18/2016

Date Modified:

07/03/2019

Date Created:

1835

License:

Public Domain Mark 1.0