and cultivate; and if good models are fet before them, inftruction and diligence will foon make them understood, and habit will render them familiar and pleasing. Perhaps there is no method by which this advantage may, in general, be more readily and effectually produced, than by accuftoming children to conmit to memory, fentences in which the words are properly chofer, and the construction and arrangement correct. This was one object which the compiler had in view, when he compofed the Grammar of which this is an epitome; and he hopes that he has not altogether failed in his endeavours to attain it. But on this point, or on any other part of the work, it belongs not to him to determine; the whole must be referred to the decifion of the impartial and judicious reader. Holdgate, near York, 1797. ADVERTISEMENT. THE ninth edition of this work has had an acceffion of eighteen pages of new matter; comprifing exercises in parfing, in orthography, and in punctuation. The exercifes in parfing have not only been very confiderably augmented; they have alfo been moulded into a new form and arrangement; which the author hopes will facilitate to young perfons the acquifition of this fundamental part of grammatical knowledge.* An Abridgment muft neceffarily be concife, and it will, in fome points, be obscure. Thofe teachers, therefore, who do not make use of the author's larger grammar, in their schools, will find an advantage by confulting it themselves. Many of the rules and pofitions are, in that work, fupported and illuftrated by particular difquifitions and the connexion of the whole fyftem is clearly exhibited. The fixteenth edition of the Grammar has, in these respects, received confiderable improvements. Holdgate, 1803. *The eleventh edition has been improved, by inferting the irregular verbs; a lift of nouns arranged according to their gender; and by many other articles correfpondent to the latest improvements in the larger grammar. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ENGLISH GRAMMAR is the art of speaking and ORTHOGRAPHY. LETTERS. An articulate found, is the found of the human voice, formed by the organs of speech. Orthography teaches the nature and powers of letters, and the juft method of fpelling words. A letter is the first principle, or least part, of a word. The letters of the English language, called the English Alphabet, are twenty-fix in number. The following is a lift of the Roman and Italic characters. ITALIC. Cap. Small. NAME. a ai b 6 m M n q r fs t S t u น eks A vowel is an articulate found, that can be perfectly uttered by itfelf: as, a, e, o; which are formed without the help of any other found. A confonant is an articulate found, which |