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a double word, as school and house to make the word
school-housé ; 80, also, other two words are put together __
to form the double words man-kind, sea-weed, glass- >
house. ‘This mode of putting words and parts of words |
together to form double words, is what is taught under

the name of Etymology.

9. You have also, perhaps, heard your teacher, or
perhaps some of your fellow-pupils, talking of verbs, of
nouns, of adjectives, and calling other words by these
names. Etymology is that part of grammar which
teaches you what words are verbs, and what are
nouns, adjectives, &c.

10. Then, after you have learnt what your book
informs you about Etymology, you find another part of =.
grammar, called Synéaz. This teaches you how to put
words together correctly, so as to form sentences. It
shows you why it is improper to say, I is a studious
boy, — You am my friend, — She are a pretty girl.

11. Thus it is that grammar teaches you to speak
properly and to write correctly. But my present
object is not to give you instructions in grammar, but to
give you lessons to read. There is one part of gram-
mar, however, called Prosody, to which little attention
is paid, in many of the schools in this country ; and the
object that I have in view is only to give you a little
knowledge of that, in order that it may be useful to
you in reading what is generally called poetry, but
what is more properly called verse. :

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LESSON LXXIIl.

The same subject, continued.

1. Prosopy* is that part of grammar which teaches
the right pronunciation of words, and the rules of versi-
fication. Every word in our language, consisting of

 

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_* The origin of this word is in the Greek language, and its primittve
signification is a preparation for singing. A preparation for singing
includes, of course, a proper onunciation of ‘words, and the harmoni-
ous arrangement of them in lines or verses. P
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