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Title page from the first edition of Joseph Priestley's Rudiments of English Grammar (1761)

The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761) was a popular English grammar textbook written by the 18th-century British polymath Joseph Priestley.

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The Rudiments of English Grammar

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The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761) was a popular English grammar textbook written by the 18th-century British polymath Joseph Priestley. While a...

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History of English grammars

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Johnson combined his grammar with a Hebrew grammar, and published it as An English and Hebrew grammar, being the first short rudiments of those two languages...

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Inanimate whose

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genitive of which", but objected to such use in the 3rd edition of The Rudiments of English Grammar in 1772: "The word whose begins likewise to be restricted...

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Subject complement

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Quick and Dirty Tips. UCalgary The Rudiments of English Grammar (1772), p. 104. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage (Merriam-Webster, 1989)...

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Joseph Priestley

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available English grammar books, Priestley wrote his own: The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761). His innovations in the description of English grammar, particularly...

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List of works by Joseph Priestley

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The Rudiments of English Grammar, a seminal work on English grammar. In his most lasting contributions to education, he argued for the benefits of a liberal...

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Declension

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actually knew what the cases were. The Stoics developed many basic notions that today are the rudiments of linguistics. The idea of grammatical cases is...

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Relativizer

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Thompson 2007. Kordić 1999, p. 25. Joseph Priestly (1761). The Rudiments of English Grammar. "Google Books Ngram Viewer: relative pronoun". Long 1961....

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1761 in literature

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Caesar to the Accession of Henry VII Joseph Priestley – The Rudiments of English Grammar Tiphaigne de la Roche – L'Empire des Zaziris sur les humains...

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Noah Webster

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Book (1783) The Elementary Spelling Book (1829) Value of The Bible and Excellence of the Christian Religion (1834) Rudiments of English Grammar (1899) First...

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Charles Bertram

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Sprog-Kunst til Danske Læseres Nytte [Rudiments of English Grammar; or the Fundamentals of the English Language for the Use of Danish Readers] (in Danish), Copenhagen:...

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Stockport Grammar School

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accepted at the ancient universities of Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews, while the curriculum became increasingly broad with the rudiments of Greek joining...

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Ellin Devis

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the time of her death in 1820, she had earned enough to own the school. The Accidence or First Rudiments of English Grammar Designed for the use of Young...

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Literature of Birmingham

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liberty, while his work The Rudiments of English Grammar established him as "one of the great grammarians of his time." The 18th century saw Birmingham's...

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Caribbean English

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recruited from among the "coloured" class on the islands who had benefited from their mixed parentage by receiving the rudiments of education.' Linguistically...

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Joseph Priestley and education

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dismayed at the quality of the instruction manuals available, Priestley wrote his own textbook: The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761). The book was very...

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Traditional English pronunciation of Latin

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Rudiments of Latin. pp. 9–17 describe early 20th-century scientific Latin pronunciation. Walker, John (1798). Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek...

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Thomas Rotherham

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and reckoning, free of charge. If the boys continued to show merit, they should be taught the rudiments of grammar and music. The college was dissolved...

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Bhili language

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L. A Short Bhili Grammar of Jhabua State and Adjoining Territories. S.l: s.n, 1937. Thompson, Charles S. Rudiments of the Bhili Language. Ahmedabad [India]:...

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Thomas Lewis Brittain

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the author of the following works: "Rudiments of English Grammar" (London, 1790), considered authoritative in its day and recommended by Walker, the lexicographer;...

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Junction grammar

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junction grammar holds that "natural language has its own math." To discover the rudiments of this foundational math and expand upon it has been the objective...

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Johann Joseph Hoffmann

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philology. From Siebold he acquired the rudiments of Japanese, and in order to take advantage of the instructions of Ko-ching-chang, a Chinese teacher whom...

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Joseph Bretland

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and edited a new edition of his Rudiments of English Grammar; many of his letters are printed in J. T. Rutt's memoirs of Priestley.  This article incorporates...

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Cambridge Rindge and Latin School

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original was a "grammar school" in a double sense: an English grammar school for Old Cambridge and a Latin grammar school (teaching the rudiments of Latin and...

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Language

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innate feature of the human mind and to constitute the rudiments of what language is. By way of contrast, such transformational grammars are also commonly...

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Burcht van Leiden

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of the complex, which itself forms a gateway to the park. In this Southern gateway a poem in Latin was used for centuries to teach the rudiments of grammar...

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John Pyke Hullah

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School: A New Method of Teaching Vocal Music (Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, London 1875). J. Hullah, The Rudiments of Musical Grammar (Longmans, Green,...

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Elizabeth Elstob

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her Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue (1715), the first such work written in English. The preface, "An Apology for the Study of Northern...

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