Joseph Aickin, The English Grammar of the English Tongue (1693)

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Date

1693

Author

Joseph Aickin

Book title

The English Grammar: Or, The English Tongue Reduced to Grammatical Rules: Containing The Four Parts of Grammar: viz. Orthographie, Etymology, Syntax, Prosody or Poetry. Being The easiest quickest and most Authentick Method of Teaching it, by Rules and Pictures: adapted to the capacities of Children, Youth and those of riper years; In Learning whereof the English Scholar may now attain the Perfection of his Mother Tongue, without the assistance of Latine; Composed for the use of all English Schools

Publication place

London

Publisher

J. Lawrence

Text type

printed book

Genre

Grammars

Subject area

Summary

Part I includes "The Symbolical Alphabet" (between pages 16-17), "An Alphabetical Table of words of one Syllable" (pp. 31-39), "An Alphabetical Table of Dissyllables" (pp. 54-62), "A Table of Trissyllables" (pp. 62-64), "A Table of Words of Four, Five, Six and Seven Syllables, both proper & common" (pp. 64-65), "Ab Alphabetical Table of Dissyllables Illustrated by their Pictures" (p. 67); explanations of marks of punctuation (pp. 69-70), numbers (p. 71), and abbreviations (p. 72), and "A Table of Words, which are pronounced alike, but differ in Signification" (pp. 74-76). Part II explains parts of speech and includes definitions of terms in versification (pp. 28-34)

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: What maketh Honey? [picture of a bee] b B b bee [between pages 16-17]
whence wise warp yern (p. 39)

Alston

I.34-35

Wing

A5739

Catalog

Term Catalogues 2: 483; Kennedy 5739

Facsimiles

Aickin, Joseph. The English Grammar, 1693. Menston: Scolar Press, 1967. view record

Criticisms

Dons, Ute. Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. 17. view record