English Grammar

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Author

Kirkham, Samuel

Title

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners

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Produced by Karl Hagen, Susan Skinner and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

Language

English

LoC Class

PE: Language and Literatures: English

Subject

English language -- Grammar

Category

Text

eBook-No.

14070

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14070

Release Date

November 17, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ENGLISH GRAMMAR, — IN
2. 2.BY SAMUEL KIRKHAM. — STEREOTYPE EDITION — NEW YORK ROBERT B. COLLINS, 254 PEARL STREET.
3. 3.BY SAMUEL KIRKHAM. — NOTICES.
4. 4.RECOMMENDATIONS.
5. 5.TO THE ELEVENTH EDITION.
6. 6.CONTENTS.
7. 7.PREFACE — HINTS TO TEACHERS AND PRIVATE LEARNERS. — FAMILIAR LECTURES — ON
8. 8.ENGLISH GRAMMAR. — LECTURE I — DIVISIONS OF GRAMMAR.—ORTHOGRAPHY.
9. 9.LANGUAGE.
10. 10.GRAMMAR.
11. 11.ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
12. 12.OF THE SOUNDS OF THE LETTERS.
13. 13.RULES FOR SPELLING. — QUESTIONS.
14. 14.ETYMOLOGY AND SYNTAX — LECTURE II — OF NOUNS AND VERBS. — CLASSIFICATION. — ETYMOLOGY. — OF NOUNS. — NOTES. — GENDER. — NOTES. — PERSON. — NUMBER. — NOTES. — CASE. — VERBS. — INDICATIVE MOOD, PRESENT TENSE. — ANALYSIS, OR PARSING. — SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — OBJECTIVE CASE.—ACTIVE-TRANSITIVE VERBS. — ACTIVE-INTRANSITIVE VERBS. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — DECLENSION OF NOUNS. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN PARSING. — QUESTIONS ON THE NOTES. — NOTES ON PHILOSOPHICAL GRAMMAR. — OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF WORDS. — PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. — QUESTIONS ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. — REMARKS ON VERBS AND NOUNS. — EXERCISES IN FALSE SYNTAX. — FALSE SYNTAX.
15. 15.LECTURE III. — OF ARTICLES. — NOTES. — SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN PARSING. — PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. — QUESTIONS ON THE NOTES. — EXERCISES IN FALSE SYNTAX. — EXAMPLES. — FALSE SYNTAX.
16. 16.LECTURE IV. — OF ADJECTIVES. — COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES. — NUMERAL ADJECTIVES. — SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN PARSING. — QUESTIONS ON THE NOTES. — PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. — QUESTIONS ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. — EXERCISES IN FALSE SYNTAX.
17. 17.LECTURE V. — OF PARTICIPLES. — SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — REMARKS ON PARTICIPLES. — QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN PARSING. — PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. — QUESTIONS ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.
18. 18.LECTURE VI. — OF ADVERBS. — NOTES. — SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — REMARKS ON ADVERBS. — QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN PARSING. — QUESTIONS ON THE NOTES. — PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. — QUESTIONS ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. — EXERCISES IN FALSE SYNTAX. — FALSE SYNTAX. — FALSE SYNTAX.
19. 19.LECTURE VII — OF PREPOSITIONS. — SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — REMARKS ON PREPOSITIONS AND VERBS. — QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN PARSING. — PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.
20. 20.LECTURE VIII. — OF PRONOUNS. — 1. OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS. — DECLENSION OF THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS. — NOTES. — SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — REMARKS ON IT . — OF ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS. — SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — III. OF RELATIVE PRONOUNS. — WHO, WHICH, and THAT. — NOTES. — DECLENSION OF THE RELATIVE PRONOUNS. — WHAT. — SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — REMARKS ON RELATIVE PRONOUNS. — QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN PARSING. — EXERCISES IN FALSE SYNTAX. — FALSE SYNTAX. — FALSE SYNTAX. — FALSE SYNTAX.
21. 21.LECTURE IX. — OF CONJUNCTIONS. — LISTS OF THE CONJUNCTIONS. — NOTES. — SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — REMARKS ON CONJUNCTIONS AND PREPOSITIONS. — QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN PARSING. — PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. — QUESTIONS ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.
22. 22.LECTURE X. — OF INTERJECTIONS.—CASES OF NOUNS. — A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL INTERJECTIONS. — SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — CASES OF NOUNS. — OF THE NOMINATIVE CASE INDEPENDENT. — OF THE NOMINATIVE CASE ABSOLUTE. — OF NOUNS IN APPOSITION. — PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN PARSING. — PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.
23. 23.LECTURE XI. — OF THE MOODS AND TENSES OF VERBS. — I. OF THE MOODS. — II. OF THE TENSES. — OF THE AUXILIARY VERBS. — SIGNS OF THE MOODS. — SIGNS OF THE TENSES. — CONJUGATION OF VERBS. — PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. — EXERCISES IN PARSING.
24. 24.LECTURE XII. — OF IRREGULAR VERBS. — EXERCISES IN PARSING.
25. 25.LECTURE XIII. — OF THE AUXILIARY, PASSIVE, AND DEFECTIVE VERBS. — I. AUXILIARY VERBS. — II. PASSIVE VERBS. — III. DEFECTIVE VERBS. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — ADDITIONAL EXERCISES IN PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — EXAMPLES. — EXAMPLES. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — EXERCISES IN PARSING. — ADDITIONAL EXERCISES IN PARSING.
26. 26.LECTURE XIV. — OF DERIVATION. — OF PREPOSITIONS USED AS PREFIXES. — RULES OF SYNTAX, — WITH ADDITIONAL EXERCISES IN FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE I. — RULE II. — RULE III. — RULE IV. — EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE V. — RULE VI. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE VII. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE VIII. — FALSE SYNTAX. — EXAMPLES FOR THE NOTE. — RULE IX. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE X. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XI. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XII. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XIII. — FALSE SYNTAX — RULE XIV. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XV. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XVI. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XVII. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XVIII. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XIX. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XX. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XXI . — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XXII. — RULE XXIII. — RULE. — RULE XXIV. — RULE XXV. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XXVI. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XXVII. — RULE XXVIII. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XXIX. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XXX. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XXXI. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XXXII. — RULE XXXIII. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XXXIV. — FALSE SYNTAX. — RULE XXXV. — FALSE SYNTAX. — REMARKS ON THE TENSES. — EXAMPLES IN FALSE SYNTAX PROMISCUOUSLY ARRANGED. — CRITICAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. — CORRECTIONS IN ORTHOGRAPHY. — CORRECTIONS IN ORTHOEPY.
27. 27.PROVINCIALISMS. — CONTRACTIONS, VULGARISMS, AND OTHER IMPROPRIETIES. — IN PENNSYLVANIA.
28. 28.PROSODY. — PUNCTUATION. — COMMA. — NOTES.
29. 29.APPENDIX. — VERSIFICATION. — RHETORIC. — COMPOSITION. — STYLE.—PERSPICUITY AND PRECISION. — STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES. — FIGURES OF SPEECH. — KEY. — PUNCTUATION. — FOOTNOTES.

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