An Abridgement of Murray's Grammar

An Abridgement of Murray's Grammar

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An Abridgement of Murray's English Grammar and Exercises; with questions, adapted to the use of schools and academies; also an appendix, containing rules and observations for writing with perspicuity and accuracy by M J Kerney, author of Compendium of Ancient and Modern History.

Murray's Grammar, published in 1795, was a classic study of the English language. Lindley Murray put it together for a ladies' college in York. It became wildly successful and has been edited, expanded and abridged many times over.

Martin Joseph Kerney was a teacher from Baltimore, Maryland. He started a Catholic school and needed textbooks, so started working on making them. He found Murray's full Grammar too "prolix" or long-winded and some of the existing abridgements too concise, so he made a new abridgement which combined the Grammar and Exercises into one slim volume.

If you ever wondered about Iambs, Trochees and Liquescent Consonants, this is the book for you.