A practical English grammar, with exercises of bad spelling and bad English: or, a plain and easy guide to speaking and writing the English language with accuracy and correctness. Containing, I. Orthography; or the Nature of True Spelling, with the Sounds of the Letters in all States; of the Division of Words into Syllables, and the right Use of Points. II. Prosody; or the Art of pronouncing the Parts or Syllables in Words, correctly, with more extensive Tables of Words properly accented than any Book of the Kind extant. III. Etymology; explaining the different Parts of Speech, the Derivation of Words, their different Endings, Change and Likeness. IV. Syntax; which teaches how to connect Words aright in a Sentence, or Sentences together. V. Etymology and syntax; exemplified in shewing the Parts of Speech of every Word, in several Pieces of English; with Reference to all the Rules, and Reasons why they are so. Together with Abbreviations, Epistolary Correspondence, Affinity in Words in

People / Organizations

• John Carter (Author)

Imprint

Leeds: printed for John Binns, bookseller, and sold by S. Crowder, Pater-Noster-Row; E. Johnson, Ave-Mary Lane, and Mess. Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange, London, and by all other Booksellers. M.DCC.LXXIII. (entered in Stationers Hall, according to Act of Parliament), [1773]

Publication year

1773-1773

ESTC No.

T44125

Grub Street ID

272596

Description

180p. ; 12⁰