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Project Gutenberg's A Grammar of the English Tongue, by Samuel Johnson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A Grammar of the English Tongue Author: Samuel Johnson Release Date: February 18, 2005 [EBook #15097] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH TONGUE *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: IN WHICH THE WORDS ARE DEDUCED FROM THEIR ORIGINALS, EXPLAINED IN THEIR DIFFERENT MEANINGS, AND AUTHORIZED BY THE NAMES OF THE WRITERS IN WHOSE WORKS THEY ARE FOUND. ABSTRACTED FROM THE FOLIO EDITION, BY THE AUTHOR, SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. * * * * * TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, DR. JOHNSON'S PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL FOLIO EDITION, AND HIS GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 1812. * * * * * A GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH TONGUE. GRAMMAR, which is the art of using words properly, comprises four parts: Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody. In this division and order of the parts of grammar I follow the common grammarians, without inquiring whether a fitter distribution might not be found. Experience has long shown this method to be so distinct as to obviate confusion, and so comprehensive as to prevent any inconvenient omissions. I likewise use the terms already received, and already understood, though perhaps others more proper might sometimes be invented. Sylburgius, and other innovators, whose new terms have sunk their learning into neglect, have left sufficient warning against the trifling ambition of teaching arts in a new language. ORTHOGRAPHY is the art of combining letters into syllables, and syllables into words. It therefore teaches previously the form and sound of letters. The letters of the English language are, Roman. Italick. Name. A a A a a B b B b be C c C c see D d D d dee E e E e e F f F f eff G g G g jee H h H
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