ELA-151 English Grammar II
$125.00
The second of three English Grammar courses in the CLAA. In 115 lessons, a student in grades 4–6 covers the whole of English grammar again at greater depth: orthography, the parts of speech, the analysis of sentences, the rules of syntax, punctuation, and prosody. The lessons are based on Harvey’s Practical Grammar.
Description
English Grammar II is the second of three courses in the CLAA English Grammar program. It teaches the whole of English grammar in 115 lessons.
The course covers the same subject as English Grammar I, but completely and at greater depth. A student who has finished the first course will find the definitions he memorized taken up again and extended. A student beginning here will find everything he needs.
Grammar is treated in its four parts: orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody. The student learns the sounds and letters of English and the rules of spelling. He then studies each part of speech at length, with its classes, its properties, and its inflections. He learns to divide a sentence into its elements, to analyze phrases and clauses, and to apply the twenty-two rules of syntax in parsing. The course ends with punctuation, the figures of speech, and prosody.
The twenty-one parts are:
- The Four Parts of Grammar
- Sounds and Letters
- Writing the Language
- The Parts of Speech
- The Noun
- The Adjective
- The Pronoun
- The Verb
- The Adverb
- The Preposition
- The Conjunction
- The Interjection, and the Parts of Speech Together
- The Kinds of Sentences
- The Elements of the Sentence
- Phrases and Clauses
- Ellipsis and Abridgment
- Analysis
- The Rules of Syntax
- Figures
- Punctuation
- Prosody
Each lesson is a reading with plain definitions. Each ends with Memory Work: numbered sentences the student memorizes and recites. Nothing memorized in English Grammar I is contradicted here; the fuller forms are built upon it.
Parsing runs through the whole course as a daily discipline. The student is also given sentences containing faults of grammar and asked to correct them, so that he learns to see error as well as to state the rule.
This course is grammar itself, not composition. The student’s writing is taken up in ELA-301 and ELA-302, English Composition.
The lessons are written for a student of about nine to twelve years, and are meant to be read by the student himself.
The arrangement and the doctrine come from Harvey’s Practical Grammar. The lessons are newly written by the Academy.
The course continues in ELA-251 English Grammar III (grades 6–8), which prepares the student for composition and for Latin.
