A New Guide to the English Tongue (1793)Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1978 - 156 pages |
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... grammar books were published frequently and in large numbers . And these grammars reflected the social and religious values of the culture . The authors of these grammars , when giving rules for writing sentences , used illustrations ...
... grammar books were published frequently and in large numbers . And these grammars reflected the social and religious values of the culture . The authors of these grammars , when giving rules for writing sentences , used illustrations ...
Page vi
... Grammar . An Accidence to the English Tongue , the first grammar written in America . " It further states that this book was published in England in 1724 , three years after Hugh Jones had returned there from the colonies ...
... Grammar . An Accidence to the English Tongue , the first grammar written in America . " It further states that this book was published in England in 1724 , three years after Hugh Jones had returned there from the colonies ...
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... grammar study through his A New Guide to the English Tongue , which was published in America as early as 1747 by Benjamin Franklin . If Dilworth's book is not the first English grammar to reach American schools , it is certainly one of ...
... grammar study through his A New Guide to the English Tongue , which was published in America as early as 1747 by Benjamin Franklin . If Dilworth's book is not the first English grammar to reach American schools , it is certainly one of ...
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Accent Adjectives Adverb alfo alſo American becauſe Book Cafe caft Church confifling of Words confifting Confonants Conjunction David Abercrombie Defire denotes Dilworth's Diphthong Divifion doth eafy Leffons edition educated hereafter English language English Tongue FABLE fame fave fhall fhew fhort fhould fignifies fing firft following Words fome fometimes foregoing Tables fuch Give an Example hath Heart himſelf Hugh Jones IMPERATIVE MOOD Jefus juft laft LESSON LESSON VI Lord Mind moft muft muſt Noah Webster Note Nouns Number Optative Mood Paffive paft Perfon Plur Plural Potential Mood praiſe Prefent Tenfe Prepofition Preter Preterperfect Tenfe Preterpluperfect Tenfe Pronoun puniſh rain Rule Second Future Tenfe Senfe Sentence ſhall Sing Singular ſpeaketh Subftantive Subjunctive Mood Syllable Tenſe thee thefe theſe Thing thofe Thomas Dilworth thoſe thou Truft unto uſed Verb Verfe Vowel wanting Wicked wife Words not exceeding