1818 printing of 1819(?) copyrighted text. Author is credited as President of Teachers' Society in the City and County of New York and as author of the Juvenile Expositor. Advertisement states this is a revised edition designed for intermediate grades. Preface states the book is meant to fill the gap in curriculum between spelling books and collections of great authors. It is designed to teach understanding of words rather than require memorization. Poetry is used. Seems to cover the four parts of grammar: orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody. Schultz Archive copy only includes preface, the brief orthography section, and the first page of etymology.
1878 copyrighted text. A grammar textbook with chapters on the parts of speech and kinds of sentences. It also includes models for notes and letters and exercises.The Schultz Archive copy contains the editor's preface, the index, the first fifty-seven pages, and pages 186 – 191 on exercises in false syntax.
1850 printing of 1850 copyrighted text. Preface states text is progressive in its development of principles of grammar. Text presents rules of orthography, a synopsis of parts of speech, a compend of etymology in which attributes are forcibly illustrated (with exercises in correction, conjugation, and parsing), a recapitulation of etymology covering more complex principles, a complete syntax, and a section on prosody. The author credits the influence of G. Brown, Butler, Bullions, and Wells. Schultz Archive copy includes brief preface and the first nineteen pages of Part I: Orthography.
1852 printing of 1852 copyrighted text. The author is credited as a reverend. Part of the R. E. Peterson's Cheap Educational Series. An introduction to grammar for young children that uses induction and systematic progression. Rules and definitions are inductions from given examples. Exercises follow each lesson. Part one is on parts of speech. Part two covers particulars of parts of speech. Part three covers the most important rules of syntax. Parsing exercises are used at the end of each part. There is also a list of questions for each part. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 67 page text.
1869 printing of 1865 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts and as the author of three other texts on grammar. Text aims for a more simple, natural, and practical basis to teach grammar. It aims to teach children to avoid common errors (and false syntax). It does not emphasize the analysis and parsing methods of instruction. The text is divided into three parts: 1) Definitions - parts of speech 2) Inflections - gender, case, conjugation 3) Constructions - syntax, parsing, analysis. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
1822 printing of 1822 copyrighted text. For young learners (at least seven years old) in both families and schools. Designed to be progressive and aid memorization through exercises in parsing. The third in a series, following two that treat orthography. This text covers etymology and syntax. Focuses on hypothetical conversations, but also includes question/answer, examples, and exercises in parsing and false syntax. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
1881 printing of 1881 copyrighted text. Author is credited as Lately Teach of Grammar in the Westfield, Mass. State Normal School. A text designed to improve upon existing grammars that over-complicated, inconsistent, and based on Greek/Latin grammar. The text features illustrative examples before introducing principles, a basis in the English language, a concise design over comprehensiveness. Heavy on definitions, few examples. The topics covered include a definition of grammar; propositions, parts; classes of words, general divisions; propositions, kinds; classes of words, separately studied. There is also a section of helps: hints, examples, illustrations, lists. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 141 page text.
1884 printing of 1883 copyrighted text. The text aims to combine theory with practice in a complete grammar of the English language. Students are first given a system of syntactical rules to discriminate between grammatical and ungrammatical writing, and then students are give exercises in construction and analysis. The author credits the influence of Quackenbos's English Grammar and Brown's Grammar of English Grammars. Each lesson contains some mix of definitions, principles, rules, lists, remarks, and directions (exercises). The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 109 page text.
1859 printing of 1859 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Formerly Principal of a Classical Academy, Baltimore. The text aims to provide the elementary principles of grammar more concisely than existing texts with fewer technical terms. The author claims his text is based on his teaching experience and a thorough examination and comparison of popular grammar texts. The text retains some necessary terminology, but has eliminated: dividing nouns into common and proper, the use of gender or person with nouns, the term case, the classification of verbs, and the use of moods. Additionally, the author replaces tense with time, creates a new system of tenses, provides a new definition of regular and irregular verbs, and uses the infinitive rather than the indicative as the governing mood. The lengthy introduction discusses twenty-seven changes made by the text. The text uses definitions/rules, examples, and examples for correction for most lessons. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the first 113 pages of the at least 128 page text.
1842 printing of 1842 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts degree and as the author of The Symbolic Spelling-Book, The Speller and Define, and The Panorama of Professions and Trades, or Popular Technology. Text aims to improve upon instruction in English grammar through exhibiting the construction of language in a distinct and systematic manner with practical exercises. The author uses five categories of verbal forms and five categories of phrases for his system (although the chapters are typical parts of speech). Exercises include parsing and imitation, and the work boasts to provide students with knowledge of 6,000 – 8,000 words. Special attention has been given to the conjunction and gerundive. The work has excluded exercises in false syntax, as well as the prosody. The Schultz Archive is roughly the first fifty-five pages of the at least 240 page text.
