The book explores grammar as both an art and a science, emphasizing its critical role in effective reading, writing, and speaking. It highlights grammar's importance as a foundational skill for academic success and its practical application in mastering language use. Through this lens, readers will gain insights into the nuances of grammar and its significance in communication.
The book emphasizes the importance of spelling as a skill best learned through practical engagement with spelling books, dictionaries, and attentive reading rather than solely through written rules. It highlights that correct spelling is largely determined by common usage, suggesting that familiarity with language in context is essential for mastering this art.
A Sentence is an assemblage of words, making complete sense, and always containing a nominative and a verb; as, "Reward sweetens labour." The principal parts of a sentence are usually three; namely, the SUBJECT, or nominative, -the attribute, or finite VERB, -and the case put after, or the OBJECT governed by the verb: as, "Crimes deserve punishment." Articles relate to the nouns which they limit: as, "At a little distance from the ruins of the abbey, stands an aged elm." "See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatic a king." A Noun or a Pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb, must be in the nominative case: as, "The Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things; and they derided him."-Luke, xvi, 14. "But where the meekness of self-knowledge veileth the front of self-respect, there look thou for the man whom none can know but they will honour."-Book of Thoughts.