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  • Aids to English Composition: prepared for students of all grades; embracing specimens and models of school and college exercises and most of the higher departments of English composition, both in prose and verse

    Document thumbnail: Aids to English Composition: prepared for students of all grades; embracing specimens and models of school and college exercises and most of the higher departments of English composition, both in prose and verse
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    Description/Abstract:
    1844 printing of the 1844 copyrighted text. The title page says the book is designed as a sequel to Progressive Exercises in English Composition. As with its predecessor, this text seeks to address two primary obstacles for student writers: obtaining ideas and expressing ideas. The author's approach to obtaining ideas is based on what he terms the principle of association. The exercises herein are not presented as a progressive course, but rather are meant to be selected by teachers as they deem useful. The material varies from sample sentences for punctuation practice, to models of the various kinds of compositions, to long lists of subjects for different kinds of compositions. There are seventy-five lessons in all. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/21/2019
    Date Created:
    1844
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Progressive Exercises in English Grammar: part 1 containing the principles of analysis, or English parsing

    Document thumbnail: Progressive Exercises in English Grammar: part 1 containing the principles of analysis, or English parsing
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    1835 printing of the second edition of the 1834 copyrighted text. Parker is credited with a Master of Arts, as the Principal of the Franklin Grammar school, and as author of Progressive Exercises in English Composition. Fox is credited with a Master of Arts and as Principal of the Boylston Grammar School. The preface states the text is based on the authors' experience as teachers and purposely uses repetitions and a colloquial style to speak its audience. The "usual arrangement" is not followed. Instead, the pupil is first taught to analyze words and phrases, and etymology and syntax are reserved for after the pupil is familiar with the simpler parts of a sentence. The parsing exercises are designed to give students practice in supplying the ellipses in sentences. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 96 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Fox, Charles and Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/01/2020
    Date Created:
    1835
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0