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• The British grammar : or, an essay, in four parts, towards speaking and writing the English language grammatically, and inditing elegantly. For the use of the schools of Great Britain and Ireland, and of private young gentlemen and ladies
  by: Buchanan, James
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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.
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• A new English grammar, by question and answer : with notes. Containing concise, but plain and comprehensive rules for speaking or writing English correctly ; Free from all unnecessary Difficulties; and the most useful Rules distinguished from the less useful, by being printed in a larger Letter. To which is Added, A Suitable Appendix. Compiled from the best Authorities, methodized and interspersed with new Observations
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• English grammar epitomised : or, a short, plain, easy compendium of English grammar, for the use of youth at schools, As well as all those Adult Persons, Who have hitherto Neglected the most Useful of all Studies, That of their Mother-Tongue. Wherein the Definitions are short, the Examples intelligible, the Rules of Syntax are exemplified with Examples under each Rule; Punctuation, or the Use of Stops, with other Marks used in Grammar, are illustrated by Examples; Rules for properly placing of Capital Letters in writing; Rules for Reading with Propriety; a Sentence construed according to the Elements of the English Language; with some Hints and Observations respecting the teaching of Youth to read, with Ease, Profit, and Improvement;-Addressed to the Teachers of Youth. By William Chown, Schoolmaster, At Moulton, near Northampton
  by: Chown, William
  Published: (1788)
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  by: Dilworth, Thomas
  Published: (1751)