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This book teaches English grammar through a playful allegory in which the parts of speech are personified and summoned before a stern Judge Grammar. Chapters present individual categories—noun, article, pronoun, adjective, verb (including tense, number, and person), adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection—using short episodes, disputes, and interventions by Serjeant Parsing to clarify usage. Explanatory passages are followed by simple exercises and parsing examples designed for classroom use. The work aims to render grammatical rules concrete and memorable for children by turning abstract principles into lively characters and situations.

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Title: Grammar-land; Or, Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire

Author: M. L. Nesbitt

Illustrator: Frederick Waddy

Release date: November 12, 2021 [eBook #66712]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Henry Holt and Company, 1885

Credits: MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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