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The Grammar of English Grammars

Brown, Goold · Public domain text

999,439 words · about 69 h 59 min to read

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Author
Goold Brown (1791–1857)
Language
English
Subjects
English language › Grammar
Length
999,439 words · about 69 h 59 min
Sections
91 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (91)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. Preface about 55 min
  3. Introduction under 1 min
  4. I. OF THE SCIENCE OF GRAMMAR about 27 min
  5. II. OF GRAMMATICAL AUTHORSHIP about 26 min
  6. III. OF GRAMMATICAL SUCCESS AND FAME about 51 min
  7. IV. OF THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE about 24 min
  8. V. OF THE POWER OF LANGUAGE about 25 min
  9. VI. OF THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE about 21 min
  10. VII. CHANGES AND SPECIMENS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE about 36 min
  11. VIII. OF THE GRAMMATICAL STUDY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE about 25 min
  12. IX. OF THE BEST METHOD OF TEACHING GRAMMAR about 37 min
  13. X. OF GRAMMATICAL DEFINITIONS about 40 min
  14. XI. BRIEF NOTICES OF THE SCHEMES OF CERTAIN GRAMMARS about 53 min
  15. I. ORTHOGRAPHY under 1 min
  16. I. OF LETTERS about 1 h 58 min
  17. II. OF SYLLABLES about 14 min
  18. III. OF WORDS about 31 min
  19. IV. OF SPELLING about 1 h 10 min
  20. V. QUESTIONS about 8 min
  21. VI. FOR WRITING about 21 min
  22. II. ETYMOLOGY under 1 min
  23. I. PARTS OF SPEECH about 16 min
  24. II. ARTICLES about 48 min
  25. III. NOUNS about 1 h 51 min
  26. IV. ADJECTIVES about 1 h 46 min
  27. V. PRONOUNS about 2 h 5 min
  28. VI. VERBS about 4 h 11 min
  29. VII. PARTICIPLES about 35 min
  30. VIII. ADVERBS about 31 min
  31. IX. CONJUNCTIONS about 24 min
  32. X. PREPOSITIONS about 47 min
  33. XI. INTERJECTIONS about 14 min
  34. XII. QUESTIONS about 16 min
  35. XIII. FOR WRITING about 6 min
  36. III. SYNTAX under 1 min
  37. I. SENTENCES about 1 h 26 min
  38. II. ARTICLES about 39 min
  39. III. CASES, OR NOUNS about 2 h 45 min
  40. IV. ADJECTIVES about 37 min
  41. V. PRONOUNS about 1 h 11 min
  42. VI. VERBS about 4 h 3 min
  43. VII. PARTICIPLES about 1 h 42 min
  44. VIII. ADVERBS about 47 min
  45. IX. CONJUNCTIONS about 45 min
  46. X. PREPOSITIONS about 30 min
  47. XI. INTERJECTIONS about 49 min
  48. XII. GENERAL REVIEW about 55 min
  49. XIII. GENERAL RULE about 2 h 13 min
  50. XIV. QUESTIONS about 40 min
  51. XV. FOR WRITING about 37 min
  52. IV. PROSODY about 3 min
  53. I. PUNCTUATION about 1 h 59 min
  54. II. UTTERANCE about 14 min
  55. III. FIGURES about 34 min
  56. IV. VERSIFICATION about 3 h 50 min
  57. V. QUESTIONS about 12 min
  58. VI. FOR WRITING about 20 min
  59. I. OF LETTERS. CORRECTIONS RESPECTING CAPITALS about 21 min
  60. II. OF SYLLABLES about 2 min
  61. III. OF WORDS about 12 min
  62. IV. OF SPELLING about 22 min
  63. I. PARTS OF SPEECH about 1 min
  64. II. ARTICLES about 8 min
  65. III. NOUNS about 5 min
  66. IV. ADJECTIVES about 6 min
  67. V. PRONOUNS about 6 min
  68. VI. VERBS about 7 min
  69. VII. PARTICIPLES about 4 min
  70. VIII. ADVERBS about 2 min
  71. IX. CONJUNCTIONS about 3 min
  72. X. PREPOSITIONS about 3 min
  73. XI. INTERJECTIONS about 1 min
  74. I. SENTENCES under 1 min
  75. II. ARTICLES about 18 min
  76. III. CASES, OR NOUNS about 30 min
  77. IV. ADJECTIVES about 16 min
  78. V. PRONOUNS about 25 min
  79. VI. VERBS about 57 min
  80. VII. PARTICIPLES about 24 min
  81. VIII. ADVERBS about 9 min
  82. IX. CONJUNCTIONS about 12 min
  83. X. PREPOSITIONS about 8 min
  84. XI. PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES about 10 min
  85. XII. GENERAL REVIEW about 53 min
  86. XIII. GENERAL RULE about 1 h 43 min
  87. I. PUNCTUATION about 54 min
  88. II. UTTERANCE under 1 min
  89. III. FIGURES under 1 min
  90. IV. VERSIFICATION (part 1 of 2) about 6 h 2 min
  91. IV. VERSIFICATION (part 2 of 2) about 3 h 9 min

The opening of Preface

The present performance is, so far as the end could be reached, the fulfillment of a design, formed about twenty-seven years ago, of one day presenting to the world, if I might, something like a complete grammar of the English language;--not a mere work of criticism, nor yet a work too tame, indecisive, and uncritical; for, in books of either of these sorts, our libraries already abound;--not a mere philosophical investigation of what is general or universal in grammar, nor yet a minute detail of what forms only a part of our own philology; for either of these plans falls very far short of such a purpose;--not a mere grammatical compend, abstract, or compilation, sorting with other works already before the public; for, in the production of school grammars, the author had early performed his part; and, of small treatises on this subject, we have long had a superabundance rather than a lack.

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