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Gra, and speaking correctly As an acquisition, it is the essential skill of scholarshi+p As a study, it is the practical science which teaches the right use of language

_An English Grammar_ is a book which professes to explain the nature and structure of the English language; and to show, on just authority, what is, and what is not, good English

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, in itself, is the art of reading, writing, and speaking the English language correctly It ie as enables him to avoid improprieties of speech; to correct any errors that may occur in literary corahtly written

_To read_ is to perceive what is written or printed, so as to understand the words, and be able to utter them with their proper sounds

_To write_ is to express words and thoughts by letters, or characters, made with a pen or other instrument

_To speak_ is to utter words orally, in order that they may be heard and understood

Graht only by a regular analysis, or systematic elucidation, of its component parts or principles; and these parts or principles must be made known chiefly by means of definitions and examples, rules and exercises

A _perfect definition_ of any thing or class of things is such a description of it, as distinguishes that entire thing or class fro _what it is_

An _exa to prove or illustrate soraulates and prescribes the right use of language

An _exercise_ is some technical perfore and skill into practice

LANGUAGE, in the primitive sense of the term, embraced only vocal expression, or human speech uttered by the mouth; but after letters were invented to represent articulate sounds, language becae_, now signifies, _any series of sounds or letters forht_

Of the coe we have also two kinds, _prose_ and _verse_; the latter requiring a certain number and variety of syllables in each line, but the for free frouage are letters; of spoken language, syllables; of language significant in each part, words; of language co sense, clauses; of language coordinating sense,sense, sentences

A discourse, or narration, of any length, is but a series of sentences; which, ritten,and relation of all the words may be quickly and clearly perceived by the reader, and the whole be uttered as the sense requires

In extended coraph; a paragraph, less than a section; a section, less than a chapter; a chapter, less than a book; a book, less than a volume; and a volume, less than the entire work

The coe work, into volumes; of volumes, into books; of books, into chapters; of chapters, into sections; of sections, into paragraphs; of paragraphs, into sentences; of sentences, into members; of members, into clauses; of clauses, into phrases; of phrases, into words; of words, into syllables; of syllables, into letters

But it rarely happens that any one work requires the use of all these divisions; and we often assu each as we find it; and also subdivide into articles, verses, cantoes, stanzas, and other portions, as the nature of the subject suggests

Gray, Syntax, and Prosody

Orthography treats of letters, syllables, separate words, and spelling

Etyy treats of the different _parts of speech_, with their classes and reeement of words in sentences

Prosody treats of punctuation, utterance, figures, and versification

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