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Murray's English Exercises - Softcover

Lindley Murray

 
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Synopsis

Murray's English Exercises.: Revised, Prepared, And Particularly Adapted To The Use Of Schools; Being A Counterpart To The English Teacher — Lindley Murray. This work is a foundational school grammar and composition manual that compiles and reorganizes Murray's earlier English grammar and exercises for use in educational settings. The volume is structured into major parts: Exercises in Parsing, Orthography, Syntax, Punctuation, and Perspicuity and Accurate Writing, followed by an Appendix and an extensive Promiscuous section of examples and corrections. It emphasizes active learning through parsing, error-correction, and guided writing, with a Key to aid self-instruction and a host of illustrative sentences designed to train attention to grammar, spelling, punctuation, and clarity of expression. The edition reflects 19th-century educational practices, including editor’s notes and additional material intended for teachers and private learners, and it was circulated widely in American schools as a counterpart to established grammars.

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