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    A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759)
    A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759)
    A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759)
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    A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759)

    By Henry Bate

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Bate's book is more a primer on -- and a methodical arrangement of -- the general rules of English Grammar. Do not expect much from this short book; read it to get a picture of the teaching of English in the 1750s.

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    Title: A Short System of English Grammar

    For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759)

    Author: Henry Bate

    Release Date: October 22, 2008 [EBook #26991]

    Language: English

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    A

    Short System

    OF

    English Grammar.

    For the use of the

    Boarding SCHOOL

    In WORCESTER.

    By HENRY BATE A. B.

    Worcester: Printed by R. Lewis,

    Bookseller, in High-Street.

    THE

    PREFACE.

    Usage and Custom are the Rules and Measures of every Language, and the Rules of Grammar have nothing more to do, than to teach it. The Grammar is to be fashioned from the particular Language, it treats of, and not the Language from the Grammar . For want of following this regular Plan, our Modern GRAMMARIANS have introduced the Grammar Rules of other Languages into their own; as if all Language was founded on Grammar , and the Rules in one Language would serve the same End and Purpose in another.

    The Latin, for Instance, has only eight Parts of Speech, and the Writers of English Grammar have unthinkingly adopted the same Number; whereas with the Article, which the Latin has not, and which is of great Service in a Language, we have no less than nine. The Latin admits of Cases; but as different Cases, properly speaking, are nothing more than the different Inflections and Terminations of Nouns, English Nouns have no Cases. It is not agreeable to the Principles of Grammar to say that—of a Rose—is the Genitive Case of—Rose, or—to a Rose, the Dative; for of and to are no Part of the Word Rose, but only prefix Particles or Prepositions, which shew the different Relation of the Word Rose. So likewise when we say Alexander's Horse, the Word Alexander's is not the Genitive Case of Alexander; for strictly speaking the 's is no Part of the Word Alexander but the final Letter of the Pronoun Possessive his, and without the Apostrophe we shou'd read it thus; Alexander his Horse. If any of the Parts of Speech have Cases, the Pronouns have, and some of the Pronouns may

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