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  • Conversations on Etymology and Syntax: being an abstract of conversations on English grammar; to which exercises in false syntax are annexed

    Document thumbnail: Conversations on Etymology and Syntax: being an abstract of conversations on English grammar; to which exercises in false syntax are annexed
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    Description/Abstract:
    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.
    Creator/Author:
    Ingersoll, Charles M.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/29/2020
    Date Created:
    1822
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Practical Lessons in the Use of English for Primary and Grammar Schools

    Document thumbnail: Practical Lessons in the Use of English for Primary and Grammar Schools
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    1894 printing of 1887 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Late Teacher of Composition in the State Normal School, Albany, NY. A grammar and composition text. It aims to provide practical training for students whose education ends with common or grammar school, as well as those who go on for further study. Each lesson aims to be a language lesson. Encourages students to cultivate their powers of observation. Connects language to the expression of thought. Selections from the best writers are used to encourage a taste for good literature, to awaken a love of nature, or to deepen a moral impression. Lessons lay out tasks for completion. Incorrect forms for correction are not used. The text also covers letter writing and business forms. Includes pictorial illustrations. The lessons are a mix of grammar, punctuation, and composition. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Hyde, Mary F. (Mary Frances)
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/29/2020
    Date Created:
    1894
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Intermediate Grammar: Practical Lessons in the use of English

    Document thumbnail: Intermediate Grammar: Practical Lessons in the use of English
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    Description/Abstract:
    1893 printing of 1893 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Formerly Teach of Composition in State Normal School Albany, NY. Part of the Indiana State Series. A grammar and composition textbook. Covers kinds of sentences, study of selection, comparison, the paragraph, study of a description, composition forms of sentences, analysis of kinds of sentences, and many chapters on parts of speech. Includes questions and oral and written exercises. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the first 52 pages of text.
    Creator/Author:
    Hyde, Mary F. (Mary Frances)
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/28/2020
    Date Created:
    1893
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Metropolitan Business College English Training Course: Consisting of Letter-Writing, Composition, Word-Analysis, Pronunciation, and Graded Lessons in English Grammar

    Document thumbnail: The Metropolitan Business College English Training Course: Consisting of Letter-Writing, Composition, Word-Analysis, Pronunciation, and Graded Lessons in English Grammar
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    Description/Abstract:
    1889 copyrighted text. Drawn from the authors' classroom experiences as teachers, this practical and logical grammar through experience and observation rather than memorization. It features a system of grading as well as consideration of composition and letter-writing. For younger children. The Schultz Archive's copy is a brief excerpt including the introduction, the contents, pages 6 and 7, and pages 154 - 159.
    Creator/Author:
    Mugan, M. D. and Hootman, A. M.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/19/2019
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Some Topics in English Grammar: for the pupil, the teacher, and the general reader

    Document thumbnail: Some Topics in English Grammar: for the pupil, the teacher, and the general reader
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    Description/Abstract:
    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.
    Creator/Author:
    Hinds, Arthur, 1856-
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/28/2020
    Date Created:
    1881
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Interrogative Grammar; in a Series of Progressive and Practical Questions: illustrating the principles of the English language and the mode of syntactical parsing

    Document thumbnail: Interrogative Grammar; in a Series of Progressive and Practical Questions: illustrating the principles of the English language and the mode of syntactical parsing
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    Description/Abstract:
    A grammar handbook that utilizes numerous pedagogical approaches: definitions, question/answer format, examples, and exercises.
    Creator/Author:
    Unknown
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Created:
    1832
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Elements of Rhetorical and Composition: A Text-Book for Schools and Colleges

    Document thumbnail: The Elements of Rhetorical and Composition: A Text-Book for Schools and Colleges
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    New edition copyrighted 1884 of the 1878 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Doctor of Laws of English, as the President of the University of Lewisburg, and as author of The Science of Rhetoric. A compendium of rules for guidance in the art of writing. The prefaces argues that learners should first be assisted in finding a subject of thought, and then be shown how to accumlate, arrange, and express the ideas connected with the theme. Chapter one, Invention, contains sections on choice of subject, accumulation of materials, and arrangement of materials. Chapter two, Style, contains sections on diction (purity propriety, precision), sentences (concord, clearness, unity, energy, harmony), paragraphs, figures, and variation of expression. Chapter three, Punctuation and Capitals, covers grammatical points, rhetorical points, printer's marks, capital letters, and the correction of proofs. Chapter four, Criticism, covers taste and pleasure of taste. Chapter five, Special Forms of Composition, covers descriptions, narratives, letters, orations, and poems. The exercises includes sections for the first three chapters. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Hill, David Jayne, 1850-1932
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/19/2019
    Date Created:
    1878
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application

    Document thumbnail: The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application
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    1880 printing of the 1878 copyrighted text. The author is credited as the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College. This treatise defines rhetoric as the art of efficient communication by language, communication implying both a speaker or writer and the audience. Part one, Composition in General, discusses and illustrates the general principles of written or spoken discourse. Its sections are: grammatical purity (including good use, barbarisms, solecisms, and improprieties), choice and use of words (including clearness, force, elegance, number of words, and arrangement of words). Part two, Kinds of Composition, covers principles of narrative and argumentative composition. The appendix cover rules of punctuation. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Hill, Adams Sherman, 1833-1910
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/19/2019
    Date Created:
    1880
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Composition and Rhetoric for Schools

    Document thumbnail: Composition and Rhetoric for Schools
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    1899 printing of the 1899 copyrighted text. Herrick is credited as Assistant Professor of English in the University of Chicago. Damon is credited as Instructor in English in the University of Chicago. Preface argues students should first be encouraged to write freely and taught habits of thought and invention before subjecting them to criticism. Part one is meant for a first year course with this approach in mind. Parts two thru four are intended for a second year course to systematically drill the students in the principles of rhetoric. Part five may be included in the second year or later. The chapters in part one, preliminary work: composition--oral and written, what to write about, development of subjects, dividing subjects into paragraphs, building sentences, a review of punctuation, how to increase vocabulary, letters. Part two, usage: good use defined, standards of good use, barbarisms, improprieties, idiom and translation, grammar--good use in the sentence. Part three, diction: wordiness, right choice of words. Part four, rhetorical laws of the sentence and paragraph: clearness in sentences--unity, clearness in sentences--coherence, force in sentences, single paragraphs. Part five, whole composition: structure, summaries, original composition--literary laws, descriptive and narrative writing, expository and argumentative writing. The authors include a section of examples of "bad English" to teach correct usage, although they acknowledge this is controversial and suggest it may be omitted. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/19/2019
    Date Created:
    1899
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Manual of English Rhetoric

    Document thumbnail: Manual of English Rhetoric
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    1875 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Professor in Davidson College. In this rhetoric principles and rules are stated briefly and any overlap with other subjects, such as psychology, logic, and aesthetics, is avoided. The introduction covers definition, aim and method of study, distribution, of rhetoric. Part one covers the processes of discourse: subject of a discourse, invention, disposition, amplification. Part two covers style: qualities of prose style, choice of words, figures of speech, the sentence, the paragraph, division of style (higher, lower, middle). Part three covers the elementary forms of discourse: description, narration, exposition, argument. Part four covers principal forms of prose: dialogue and epistolary, didactic prose, historical prose, oratorical prose. The author credits the influence of Lectures on the English Language by Hon. Geo. P. Marsh, Theories of Style by J. K. F. Rinne, German Style by Karl Becker, and Homletics by Vinet. The Schultz Archive copy cuts off on page 231, missing pages 232 through at least 279 (according to the ToC).
    Creator/Author:
    Hepburn, A. D. (Andrew Dousa), 1830-1921
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/19/2019
    Date Created:
    1875
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0