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Aiming to excite thought …
John Relly Beard, Cassell's Lessons in English; Containing a Practical Grammar Adapted for the Use of the Self-Educating Student (1854)
1. Columbus was imprisoned.
2. Air can be weighed.
3. Time is flying.
4. Tempests are raging.
Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg, Lessons in English, Book 1: Practical Grammar and Composition Based Upon the Science of the Sentence (1888)
Sadly, all too often, English learning materials do not engage native speakers in this way, as the texts are too bland and uninspiring. The fact they are uninspiring for adult native speakers suggests that English learners will also find them dull.
Lucy Cooker, “Self-Access Materials,” in English Language Learning Materials: A Critical Review, ed. Brian Tomlinson (2008)
5. Eclipses have been foretold.
6. Money is circulated.
7. Grammarians will differ.
8. Sodom might have been spared.
Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg, A One-Book Course in English, In Which the Pupil Is Led by a Series of Observation Lessons to Discover and Apply the Principles That Underlie the Construction of the Sentence, and That Control the Use of Grammatical Forms: A Complete Text-Book on Grammar and Composition, for Schools Whose Curriculum Will Not Allow Time for the Authors’ Two-Book Course (1904)
In the doctrines here advanced, the author has not been bound by prescription nor carried away by a love of novelty. In intention, at least, he has simply set forth facts, and generalised facts into principles and laws. Yet he is himself little satisfied with what is here said on one or two disputed points …
John Relly Beard, Cassell's Lessons in English; Containing a Practical Grammar Adapted for the Use of the Self-Educating Student (1854)
This is a sentence, because it expresses a thought. Socrates is the subject, because——; was poisoned is the predicate, because*——.
Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg, Graded Lessons in English: An Elementary English Grammar, Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class Room (1885)
Until some genius shall arise and cast light through this darkness, and bring this confusion into order, all that can be done is for each writer on the subject simply and honestly to expound the views he has been led to form.
John Relly Beard, Cassell's Lessons in English; Containing a Practical Grammar Adapted for the Use of the Self-Educating Student (1854)
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