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The Comic English Grammar

The Comic English Grammar

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Number of Chapters: 18

Length: 03 hours and 38 minutes

Language: English

This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation.

The listener is warned that there is quite a dated feel about this little grammar as the author, in keeping with the times (1840), is a frightful snob about social classes, scathing about 'vulgar speech' and also sometimes quite rude about American turns of phrase. The author is not remotely as comical as he thinks he is, but it has its moments. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

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Preliminary Discourse (Ruth Golding)
Part I Orthography (Ruth Golding)
Pt. II Etymology Ch. 1 Parts of Speech (Ruth Golding)
Pt. II Etymology Ch. 2 Articles (Ruth Golding)
Pt. II Etymology Ch. 3 Substantives (Ruth Golding)
Pt. II Etymology Ch. 4 Adjectives (Ruth Golding)
Pt. II Etymology Ch. 5 Pronouns (Ruth Golding)
Pt. II Etymology Ch. 6 Verbs (Ruth Golding)
Pt. II Etymology Ch. 7 Adverbs (Ruth Golding)
Pt. II Etymology Ch. 8 and 9 Prepositions and Conjunctions (Ruth Golding)
Pt. II Etymology Ch. 10 Derivation (Ruth Golding)
Pt. III Syntax Rule I (Ruth Golding)
Pt. III Syntax Rules II - XV (Ruth Golding)
Pt. III Syntax Rules XVI to XXII (Ruth Golding)
Pt. IV Prosody Ch. 1 Pronunciation (Ruth Golding)
Pt. IV Prosody Ch. 2 Versification (Ruth Golding)
Pt. IV Prosody Ch. 3 Punctuation (Ruth Golding)
Address to Young Students (Ruth Golding)
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