Murray of Oxford has compiled an illuminating grammar of the language, indicating the various dialects of the Lowlands and their geographical areas.
A Glasgow firm of printers not long ago conceived the idea of printing post-cards with Gaelic greetings: they found that every city Highlander they consulted had either in grammar or turn of phrase some special way of framing the sentences.
As a majority of our boys and girls do not enter high school, some instruction in matters of sex should be given in grammar schools.
It was a wondrous still night, when, a few minutes before twelve, with his forehead bandaged under his hat, the champion of lost causes left the hotel and made his way towards the Grammar School for the declaration of the poll.
His maternal grandmother, Lady Mason, however, took an interest him and placed him at a grammar school at St Alban's.
Nat thought so when he struggled to master grammar without a teacher.
He wants to form a new class in grammar for beginners, and our parents have told him that we must study it," said George.
You think better of that grammar class than you did five years ago, do you?
As his school days ended a few months after, his knowledge of grammar was very limited indeed.
There are many such examples; and they show us that boys may rise to stations they never expect to hold, so that your plea for not studying grammar is a poor one.
I have heard father say that grammar was not studied at all when he went to school, and that it has been introduced into school quite recently.
The grammar had its turn in this convenient pocket, and every day was compelled to disclose some of its hidden knowledge.
And as to your not expecting to occupy stations in future life, where you will find a knowledge of grammar useful, there is more prospect of it than there was that Benjamin Franklin would become distinguished.
The subject of grammar became a frequent theme of remark during the remainder of the term among the boys.
Nat, on the same day they discussed theirgrammar experience.
I knew little more about grammar when I left off going to school than I do about Greek or Hebrew.
By this time they had reached the pond, so that the subject of grammar was dropped, and skating taken up.
But when you have a good grammar lesson you may recite it to me.
Nat had the chief agency in preparing the constitution and by-laws, as he did in the debating society, and he found that a knowledge of grammar was indeed a decided assistance.
Cyrilla had bounded from her bed to the centre of the floor, waving her Greek grammar wildly in the air.
The announcement of the winners of the Tunis Quick prize for grammar and spelling has been made by the faculty of Rutgers College.
Last year he took the highest honor at the grammar school commencement, delivering the valedictory and winning a prize scholarship.
One day our grammar lesson was changing possessive modifiers to equivalent phrases, and the sentence "Washington's farewell address" came up.
Negative: "To prove that grammaris better, take the Tower of Babble.
After having received the first rudiments of education in his father's family, Mungo Park was in due time removed to the Grammar School at Selkirk, where he remained a considerable number of years.
We know that a free grammar school of good standard existed in Stratford during his boyhood, and later.
Deep read school men or grammarians" is a reference to Shakespeare's grammar school education.
Though Shakespeare's grammar school days ended in Stratford he took his collegiate course in Burbage's Theatre.
He was educated at the grammar school of Phalsbourg, and was a boarder there, growing up an intractable and idle boy.
If we speak it is our own knowledge of Grammarthat is used.
In Grammar every rule we learn is to be applied in our speech.
The meaning of these two rules is this: From the beginning we must try to understand the grammar of music.
Harmony and counterpoint stand to music very much as spelling and grammar stand to language.
Grammar is brought before us in other languages, and branches out into the study of Rhetoric and Literature.
Grammar teaches us to listen and to speak understandingly.
Rules of grammar will be earlier given to the adult, because he will notice correspondences and differences sooner than the child.
To supply the pupil with an old-fashioned grammar exercise is like inviting him to make a dinner off papier-mache joints and steaks.
When at Manila, we obtained a grammar of the Tagalog language, which is said to be now rarely heard, and to have become nearly obsolete.
This grammar is believed to be the only one extant, and was procured from a padre, who presented it to the Expedition.
According to this, only 12 percent finished grammar grades and, according to their own admission, 11.
And I must take occasion here to say that any points of grammar that may be found incorrect, or failure in making explanations clear to learners, are, in all probability, due to my not strictly following his suggestions.
This gave him his great idea, namely, to construct his language in the fashion of such a key by inserting in it not only the vocabulary, but the whole grammar in its separate elements.
The following is the Complete Grammar of Esperanto, as given by Dr.
It will be seen that the whole Grammar consists of sixteen short Rules, which can be learnt in less than an hour.
Soon after this the Doctor had in manuscript the whole grammar and a small vocabulary.
On the table, in addition to the grammar and dictionary, were some translations in the new language.
They attended also the fencing and riding schools of Mr. Angelo, and received instructions from their father in English grammar and oratory.
Next to Grammarsits Rhetoric, at whose feet is a figure with its two hands resting on books, while it draws a third hand from beneath a mantle and holds it to its mouth.
Grammar habited like a woman is teaching a boy; beneath her sits the writer Donato.
Maria Novella, who then taught grammar to the novices of that convent.
In 1758, he was removed from his employment at Fordoun, to that of usher in the Grammar School at Aberdeen, for which he had been an unsuccessful competitor in the preceding year, but was now nominated without the form of a trial.
In 1767 he began his treatise De Poesi Asiatica, on the plan of Lowth's Praelectiones, and composed a Persian grammar for the use of a school-fellow, who was about to go to India.
There is a grammar prefixed, and the history of the language is pretty full; but you may plainly perceive strokes of laxity and indolence.
He was educated at the Grammarschool of Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, under the Rev.
See Robertson, Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research, op.
St. John Thackeray, Grammar of the Old Testament Greek According to the Septuagint (New York: G.
Robertson, A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research (New York: George H.
There were renewed appeals for publication, but it was not possible to put the material into shape because of my work on A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research.
But see Robertson, Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research, op.
The learning of a foreign language in which one has to construct his own grammar and lexicon requires persistent effort of the most disciplined mind.
Is designed for the First Class in Primary Schools, and for the Lowest Class in Grammar Schools--thus enabling the pupil to review his studies after entering the Grammar School.
Dear Sir--I have examined with great pleasure the Grammar which you did me the honour to send me.
Ordered, That Greene's First Lessons in Grammartake the place of Allen H.
A Grammar of the Spanish Language, based on the system of D.
The Grammar School Reader Is designed for the Middle Classes in Grammar Schools.
I have no hesitation in saying that I consider it the best English Grammar in existence.
He was educated at Boston grammar school, and was apprenticed to Stephen White, a Norwich printer.
The speech of the peoples occupying the lowland east of Abyssinia, the Saho (Reinisch, grammar in Zeitschrift d.
These were written in rhymed prose like those of Hamadhani, and are full of allusions to Arabian history, poetry and tradition, and discussions of difficult points of Arabic grammar and rhetoric.
In twelve lessons he found himself able to read an easy German book, his master having discarded the use of a grammar and translated to him short stories word for word into French.
