English Grammar in Familiar Lectures (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Nineteenth-Century Guide to English Usage, Syntax, Parsing, and Schoolroom Language InstructionBy Samuel Kirkham
Length9h 9m
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English Grammar in Familiar Lectures presents grammar as a practical art rather than an abstract system, arranging orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody in accessible "lectures" addressed to learners. Its plain explanations, examples, parsing exercises, and catechetical clarity reflect the nineteenth-century textbook tradition, especially the influence of Lindley Murray, while also adapting grammar to the needs of American schools. The style is earnest, orderly, and pedagogical, designed to make correctness in speech and writing a mark of disciplined education. Samuel Kirkham, an American grammarian of the early nineteenth century, wrote at a moment when common schooling was expanding and linguistic refinement was increasingly tied to social mobility, citizenship, and moral formation. His work suggests a teacher deeply aware of classroom difficulties: he sought to simplify rules, regularize instruction, and furnish pupils with a usable command of English. The book's popularity shows how strongly it answered the educational ambitions of its age. This volume is recommended to readers interested in the history of grammar, American education, and the cultural authority once granted to "proper" English. It remains valuable not only as a manual of usage, but as a revealing document of how language, pedagogy, and social aspiration converged in the nineteenth-century classroom.
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Length9 hrs 9 mins
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Publish dateNov 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26LECTURE IV.
2PREFACE
27OF ADJECTIVES.
3HINTS TO TEACHERS AND PRIVATE LEARNERS.
28LECTURE V.
4ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
29OF PARTICIPLES.
5LECTURE I
30LECTURE VI.
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6DIVISIONS OF GRAMMAR.—ORTHOGRAPHY.
31OF ADVERBS.
7LANGUAGE.
32LECTURE VII
8GRAMMAR.
33OF PREPOSITIONS.
9ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
34LECTURE VIII.
10OF THE SOUNDS OF THE LETTERS.
35OF PRONOUNS.
11RULES FOR SPELLING.
36LECTURE IX.
12QUESTIONS.
37OF CONJUNCTIONS.
13ETYMOLOGY AND SYNTAX
38LECTURE X.
14LECTURE II
39OF INTERJECTIONS.—CASES OF NOUNS.
15CLASSIFICATION.
40LECTURE XI.
16ETYMOLOGY.
41OF THE MOODS AND TENSES OF VERBS.
17OF NOUNS.
42LECTURE XII.
18GENDER.
43OF IRREGULAR VERBS.
19PERSON.
44LECTURE XIII.
20NUMBER.
45OF THE AUXILIARY, PASSIVE, AND DEFECTIVE VERBS.
21CASE.
46II. PASSIVE VERBS.
22VERBS.
47III. DEFECTIVE VERBS.
23SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING.
48LECTURE XIV.
24LECTURE III.
49OF DERIVATION.
25OF ARTICLES.
50RULES OF SYNTAX,
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