Carter, John, teacher.
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A practical English grammar, with exercises of bad spelling and bad English: or, a plain and easy guide to speaking and writing the English language with accuracy and correctness. Containing, I. Orthography; or the Nature of True Spelling, with the Sounds of the Letters in all States; of the Division of Words into Syllables, and the right Use of Points. II. Prosody; or the Art of pronouncing the Parts or Syllables in Words, correctly, with more extensive Tables of Words properly accented than any Book of the Kind extant. III. Etymology; explaining the different Parts of Speech, the Derivation of Words, their different Endings, Change and Likeness. IV. Syntax; which teaches how to connect Words aright in a Sentence, or Sentences together. V. Etymology and syntax; exemplified in shewing the Parts of Speech of every Word, in several Pieces of English; with Reference to all the Rules, and Reasons why they are so. Together with Abbreviations, Epistolary Correspondence, Affinity in Words in an extensive Manner, Emphasis, Versification, and the Nature of Rhetorical Tropes and Figures. By John Carter, Teacher of the English Language
Carter, John, teacher.Date: [1773]- E-books
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The complete English spelling dictionary , upon an entire new plan. In which all words of two or more syllables are so accented and divided, as to fix their proper sounds. With Easy Rules for attaining the true Pronunciation of all Words; by which Foreigners will acquire the true English Accent; Natives will be enabled to correct and shake off the false and improper Dialect (peculiar to any County in this Kingdom) And Children may be taught to speak the Language with the greatest Propriety. For the use of schools. To which is added, An alphabetical Appendix of Proper Names of Two and more Syllables, in the O. and N. Testament; which being divided as they should be spoke, the Reading of the Holy Scriptures is thereby rendered perfectly easy.
Carter, John, teacher.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]