First Notions of Grammar for Young Learners
by Charles Peter Mason (9781459077737)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FIEST NOTIONS OF GBAMMAR 1. Men have the wonderful gift of speech. "We can make one another know what thoughts we have in our minds by making a set of sounds with our mouths. The sounds that we use in doing this make up what is called Speech, or Language. Thene sounds are first grouped together in little lots, called words, and these words are put together so as to have some meaning. When we actually speak with our mouths, the words that we utter are called spoken language. When we write down certain marks which men understand to represent these spoken words, we get written language. 2. The words that we use are of different sorts, according to the kind of work that they have to do. These different sorts of words are called Parts of Speech, because they are the parts into which all speech is divided. NOUNS AND VERBS. Nouns. 3. When a little child begins to talk, and wishes to tell others what it thinks about the things which it sees or feels, it often points to the thing,and at the same time says some word whifih denotes the idea that it has in its mind. Thus it will point to sugar, and say ' nice,' or ' good ;' or it will point to the fire, and say ' burns ;' or to a bright picture, and say ' pretty.' It is quite possible to speak about a thing without naming it. If I hold up a watch before you, and say 'ticks,' you all understand me to mean that ' the watch ticks.' If you point to John Brown, and say, 'stole a tart,' I understand you to mean that ' John Brown stole a tart.' Your pointing makes me understand whom you mean, as well as if you had said 'John Brown,' or 'that boy.' 4. But this way of going to work would be very troublesome, and would not be of much use. How could I make you understand that a watch ticks, if I had not one to show you ? Or how could you...

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