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or, the principles of English grammar, methodically digested into plain rules, and adapted to the capacities of young people. To which are added, exercises on a most useful new plan, to be rectified by the Rules of Grammar: I. Copious Exercises of false Spelling. II. On the Declension of Nouns. III. On the Conjugation of Active and Passive Verbs. IV. On Construction. V. The Method of turning Poetry into Prose. VI. Parsing Examples, with References to the Rules of Construction. With Proper Directions and Address from Inferiors to Persons of Distinction; and also a Table of Abbreviations explained, &c. The third edition, carefully revised, corrected and much improved, by the Rev. Lister Metcalfe, Curate of Muker, Swaledale, in the County of York. |