About this book
This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that there is quite a dated feel about this little grammar as the author, in keeping with the times (1840), is a frightful snob about social classes, scathing about 'vulgar speech' and also sometimes quite rude about American turns of phrase. The author is not remotely as comical as he thinks he is, but it has its moments. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
Chapters (17)
1Part I Orthography
2Pt. II Etymology Ch. 1 Parts of Speech
3Pt. II Etymology Ch. 2 Articles
4Pt. II Etymology Ch. 3 Substantives
5Pt. II Etymology Ch. 4 Adjectives
6Pt. II Etymology Ch. 5 Pronouns
7Pt. II Etymology Ch. 6 Verbs
8Pt. II Etymology Ch. 7 Adverbs
9Pt. II Etymology Ch. 8 and 9 Prepositions and Conjunctions
10Pt. II Etymology Ch. 10 Derivation
11Pt. III Syntax Rule I
12Pt. III Syntax Rules II - XV
13Pt. III Syntax Rules XVI to XXII
14Pt. IV Prosody Ch. 1 Pronunciation
15Pt. IV Prosody Ch. 2 Versification
16Pt. IV Prosody Ch. 3 Punctuation
17Address to Young Students
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