A practial grammar, or, The easiest and shortest way to initiate young children in the Latin tongue by the help whereof, a child of seven years old may learn more of the grounds of that language in three months, than is ordinarily learn'd in one year's space by those of greater age, in common grammar schools / Published for the use of such as love not to be tedious. To which are added, tables of Mr. Walker's Particles by the assistance where of young scholars may be better enabled to peruse that excellent and most useful treatise by J. Philomath.
- Title
- A practial grammar, or, The easiest and shortest way to initiate young children in the Latin tongue by the help whereof, a child of seven years old may learn more of the grounds of that language in three months, than is ordinarily learn'd in one year's space by those of greater age, in common grammar schools / Published for the use of such as love not to be tedious. To which are added, tables of Mr. Walker's Particles by the assistance where of young scholars may be better enabled to peruse that excellent and most useful treatise by J. Philomath.
- Author
- Philomath, J.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Henry Hills, for Thomas Cockerill, at the Three Leggs, over against the Stocks-Market,
- 1682.
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- Latin language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.
- Latin language -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.
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"A practial grammar, or, The easiest and shortest way to initiate young children in the Latin tongue by the help whereof, a child of seven years old may learn more of the grounds of that language in three months, than is ordinarily learn'd in one year's space by those of greater age, in common grammar schools / Published for the use of such as love not to be tedious. To which are added, tables of Mr. Walker's Particles by the assistance where of young scholars may be better enabled to peruse that excellent and most useful treatise by J. Philomath." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B09308.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- to the reader
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A
Practical Grammar. - Moreover, There do belong to Nouns, Pronouns, and Participles,
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Exceptions from the Rules concerning Nounsand the Declensions. -
Nouns
that differ variously in the Terminations from the common road. - Rules for Genders of Noun-Substantives.
- Except from these general Rules:
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Of Irregular Nouns out of the Westminster-Introduction. - A VERB hath
- Of Participles there are four kinds, one of the
- The Formation of Verbs from their Radical Tenses.
- part
- Of certain Irregular Verbs.
- Of the Preterperfect Tense and Supine of Verbs of the four Conjugations.
- Verba Deponentia.
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Of a Preposition out of WestminsterIntroduction. - Construction or Syntax hath two general Parts, Agreement and Government.
- The Prosodia, or Rules to know the quan∣tities of Syllables in the Latine Tongue.
- Of the Quantity of ending syllables.
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Mr.
Walkers Particles in Tables ac∣commodated to the Capacities and Memories of young Lads.