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• A practical grammar of the English tongue : or, a rational and easy introduction to speaking and writing English correctly and properly ; Peculiarly adapted to the Nature and Genius of the Language; and free from the hard and unnecessary Terms of the Latin Rudiments. The whole treated of in expressive Terms and familiar Style, and in the most natural and instructive Method, viz. That of Question and Answer. Design'd for the use of schools. And tho' calculated chiefly for the Use of the Fair Sex, and such as require only an English Education, may yet be a useful Foundation to those who are design'd for higher Studies. By William Loughton, School-Master at Kensington. The fifth edition, with improvements. To which is annexed, an introduction to the art of writing, illustrated with several Specimens of all the usual Hands, curiously engraved by Mr Bickham
  by: Loughton, William
  Published: (1744)
• A practical grammar of the English tongue: or, a rational and easy introduction to speaking and writing English correctly and properly : ; Peculiarly adapted to the Nature and Genius of the Language, And free from the hard and unnecessary Terms of the Latin Rudiments. The whole Treated of in expressive Terms and familiar ..., and in the most natural and instructive Method, viz. That of Question and Answer. Design'd for the use of schools: And tho' calculated ... the Use of the Fair Sex, and such as require only an English Education, may yet be a useful Foundation to those who are design'd for higher Studies By William Loughton, School-Master at Kensington
  by: Loughton, William
  Published: (1735)
• A practical grammar of the English tongue : or, a rational and easy introduction to speaking and writing English correctly and properly ; Peculiarly adapted to the Nature and Genius of the Language; and free from the hard and unnecessary Terms of the Latin Rudiments. The Whole treated of in expressive Terms and familiar Style, and in the most natural and instructive Method, viz. That of Question and Answer. Design'd for the use of schools. This Work tho' calculated chiefly for the Use of the Fair Sex, and such as require only an English Education, may yet be a useful Foundation to those who are design'd for higher Studies. By William Loughton, School-Master at Kensington
  by: Loughton, William
  Published: (1749)
• A grammar of the English language in a series of letters intended for the use of schools and of young persons in general, but more especially for the use of soldiers, sailors, apprentices, and plough-boys : to which are added six lessons intended to prevent statesman from using false grammar and from writing in an awkward manner
  by: Cobbett, William
  Published: (1829)
• A short view of English grammar : In a method intirely new. Containing, I. The Doctrine of the Eight Parts of Speech, together with their Signs to know them. II. The Declension of Substantives, Regular, Irregular, Defective, and Redundant, with their Articles and Signs. III. A Table of Adjectives in the three Degrees of Comparison; and how they form Abstracts and Adverbs. IV. The Declension of Pronouns, Substantive and Adjective, Simple and Compound. V. A Table of the Themes of Verbs, with their Government; also their Conjugation and Application of their Signs. VI. A Table of Participles of all Kinds, together with the Gerunds. Vii. The most remarkable Original Adverbs, Simple and Compounded, disposed Alphabetically. Viii. Prepositions and their Government: Also those called Inseparable, and other Syllables borrowed from the Latin in Words compounded. IX. A Summary of Syntax, shewing the Concord and Government of Words join'd in Speech. X. Prosody, shewing the various Ways of accenting Words. XI. The principal and ornamental Rules of Rhetoric, necessary to understand an English Author in Prose or Poetry. XII. Lastly, The Terms explain'd; and an Account of the Stops and Marks in Writing. For the use of schools. By John Stirling, M. A. Vicar of Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Gordon
  by: Stirling, John
  Published: (1740)