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  • Complete English Grammar

    Document thumbnail: Complete English Grammar
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    1891 printing of 1891 copyrighted text. Part of the Indiana State Series. Designed to follow the Elementary English Grammar and to serve as a complete one-book course for more advanced pupils. Teaches that thought is the essential thing and language is secondary to the idea to be expressed. Principles of language are explained and illustrated before rules are given. Examples of chapters: classification of words, properties and modifications, nouns and pronouns, the verb, the preposition, the subject, noun modifiers, analysis of sentences, synthesis, construction of adjective modifiers, punctuation, prosody. Schultz Archive's copy includes preface, TOC, pages 204 – 207 and 220 – 266, which cover prose composition, composition in series, and letter writing.
    Creator/Author:
    Collett, Josephus, 1831-1893
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/21/2020
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Practical Lessons in Language

    Document thumbnail: Practical Lessons in Language
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    Copyrighted 1893. The author is credited as Principal of Grammar School No. 3, Brooklyn, NY. The book is meant to cover the last two years of the primary course. Lessons are headed as "Things to Notice" and "Things to Do," while reviews are headed as "Things to Remember." It recommends that the teacher help students correct their writing while they are working on it, as opposed to making corrections after it has been written. Includes illustrations that serve as the subject matter of compositions. Includes lessons on stories for reproduction, supplying suitable words, letter writing, the parts of a statement, joining sentences, reproduction and quotation marks, words used to qualify, and composition exercises. The Schultz Archive copy contains various pages up to page 139. There is no TOC.
    Creator/Author:
    Conklin, Benjamin Y.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/22/2020
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0