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• Fisher's grammar improved : or an English grammar in which Fisher's plan is preserved, And the Work made more perfect By various Amendments; In Orthography and Prosody From Sheridan and others; And in Etymology and Syntax Principally from Lowth. By the Rev. J. Wilson, Vicar of Biddulph, Master of the Free Grammar School in Congleton
  by: Wilson, J.
  Published: (1792)
• A practical English grammar, with exercises of bad spelling and bad English: or, a plain and easy guide to speaking and writing the English language with accuracy and correctness. Containing, I. Orthography; or the Nature of True Spelling, with the Sounds of the Letters in all States; of the Division of Words into Syllables, and the right Use of Points. II. Prosody; or the Art of pronouncing the Parts or Syllables in Words, correctly, with more extensive Tables of Words properly accented than any Book of the Kind extant. III. Etymology; explaining the different Parts of Speech, the Derivation of Words, their different Endings, Change and Likeness. IV. Syntax; which teaches how to connect Words aright in a Sentence, or Sentences together. V. Etymology and syntax; exemplified in shewing the Parts of Speech of every Word, in several Pieces of English; with Reference to all the Rules, and Reasons why they are so. Together with Abbreviations, Epistolary Correspondence, Affinity in Words in an extensive Manner, Emphasis, Versification, and the Nature of Rhetorical Tropes and Figures. By John Carter, Teacher of the English Language
  by: Carter, John
  Published: (1773)
• A new guide to the English tongue : in five parts. Containing, I. Words both common and proper from one to six Syllables: The several Sorts of Monosyllables in the common Words being distinguished by Tables, into Words of two, three, and four Letters, &c. with six short Lessons at the End of each Table, not exceeding the order of Syllables in the foregoing Tables. The several Sorts of Pollysyllables also being ranged in proper Tables, have their Syllables divided, and Directions placed at the Head of each Table for the Accent, to prevent false Pronunciation; together with the like Number of Lessons on the foregoing Tables, placed at the End of each Table, as far as to Words of four Syllables, for the easier and more speedy Way of teaching Children to read. II. A large and useful Table of Words, that are the same in Sound, but different Signification; very necessary to prevent the writing one Word for another of the same Sound. III. A short, but comprehensive Grammar of the English Tongue, delivered in the most familiar and instructive Method of Question and Answer; necessary for all such Persons as have the Advantage only of an English Education. IV. An useful Collection of Sentences in Prose and Verse; Divine, Moral and Historical; together with a select Number of Fables, adorned with proper Sculptures, for the better Improvement of Young Beginners. And, V. Forms of prayer for children, on several Occasions. The Whole being recommended by several Clergymen and eminent Schoolmasters, as the most useful Performance for the Instruction of Youth, is designed for the use of schools in Great Britain, Ireland, and in the several English Colonies and Plantations abroad. The thirty-seventh edition. By Thomas Dilworth, Author of the Schoolmaster's Assistant; Young Book-Keeper's Assistant, &c. &c. and Schoolmaster in Wapping
  by: Dilworth, Thomas
  Published: (1783)
• Exercises, instructive and entertaining, in false English : written with a view to perfect youth in their mother tongue, as well as To Enlarge their Ideas in General, and Give them a Relish for what is Ornamental, Useful, and Good
  Published: (1794)
• The universal spelling-book
  by: Fenning, Daniel
  Published: (1771)