Grammatical institutes
By: by John Ash ; a facsimile reproduction with an introd. by Charlotte Downey.
Series: American linguistics, 1700-1900
Publisher: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Delmar, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: English language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.
First sentence: (Preface) The Importance of an English Education is now pretty well understood and it is generally acknowledged, that, not only for Ladies, but for young Gentlemen designed merely for Trade, an intimate Acquaintance with the Properties, and Beauties of the English Tongue would be a very desirable and necessary Attainment; far prefereable to a Smattering of the learned Languages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Photoreprint of the 1785 ed. printed at Worcester by I. Thomas for E. Battelle and W. Green, Boston.
Table of contents: title: Intoduction (by Charlotte Downey)
pagenum: modern v; title: Preface
pagenum: original iii; title: Advertisement
pagenum: vii; title: An Introduction to the Grammatical Institutes
pagenum: ix; title: Grammatical Institutes
pagenum: 23; title: Appendix
pagenum: 79; title: - The Declension of Irregular and Defective Verbs
pagenum: 79; title: - An Easy Praxis on Gen XLV.I & C.
pagenum: 92; title: - Application of the Grammatical Institutes
pagenum: 99; title: - Of the Ellipsis
pagenum: 113; title: - General Rules for English Concord
pagenum: 133; title: - Promiscuous Exercises of False Syntax
pagenum: 149; title: - Of  Punctuation
pagenum: 162; title: - We shall now add a few Lessons
pagenum: 173; title: - The following Lessons are Annexed
pagenum: 185