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
31OF ADVERBS.
2PREFACE
32LECTURE VII
3HINTS TO TEACHERS AND PRIVATE LEARNERS.
33OF PREPOSITIONS.
4ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
34LECTURE VIII.
5LECTURE I
35OF PRONOUNS.
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6DIVISIONS OF GRAMMAR.—ORTHOGRAPHY.
36LECTURE IX.
7LANGUAGE.
37OF CONJUNCTIONS.
8GRAMMAR.
38LECTURE X.
9ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
39OF INTERJECTIONS.—CASES OF NOUNS.
10OF THE SOUNDS OF THE LETTERS.
40LECTURE XI.
11RULES FOR SPELLING.
41OF THE MOODS AND TENSES OF VERBS.
12QUESTIONS.
42LECTURE XII.
13ETYMOLOGY AND SYNTAX
43OF IRREGULAR VERBS.
14LECTURE II
44LECTURE XIII.
15CLASSIFICATION.
45OF THE AUXILIARY, PASSIVE, AND DEFECTIVE VERBS.
16ETYMOLOGY.
46II. PASSIVE VERBS.
17OF NOUNS.
47III. DEFECTIVE VERBS.
18GENDER.
48LECTURE XIV.
19PERSON.
49OF DERIVATION.
20NUMBER.
50RULES OF SYNTAX,
21CASE.
51CRITICAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS.
22VERBS.
52CORRECTIONS IN ORTHOGRAPHY.
23SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING.
53PROVINCIALISMS.
24LECTURE III.
54CONTRACTIONS, VULGARISMS, AND OTHER IMPROPRIETIES.
25OF ARTICLES.
55PROSODY.
26LECTURE IV.
56PUNCTUATION.
27OF ADJECTIVES.
57APPENDIX.
28LECTURE V.
58VERSIFICATION.
29OF PARTICIPLES.
59KEY.
30LECTURE VI.
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