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AN

ENGLISH GRAMMAR:

COMPREHENDING

THE PRINCIPLES AND RULES

OF THE

LANGUAGE,

ILLUSTRATED BY

APPROPRIATE EXERCISES,

AND

A KEY TO THE EXERCISE S.

BY LINDLEY MURRAY,

They who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order,
are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order. .................. BLAIR

FOR LONCMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME; AND DARTON AND HARVEY, LONDON ;

FOR WILSON AND SON, AND R. AND W. SPENCE, YORK: AND

FOR CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURCH.

1808.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS VOLUME COMPREHENDS,

FIRST—THE PRINCIPLES and general rules of grammar; and

SECONDLY—AN APPENDIX, containing rules and observation!

for promoting perspicuous and accurate com position,

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