Excerpt from Lessons in Language: An Introduction to the Study of English Grammar Most children twelve years of age should be able to speak and write the English language with considerable readiness and accuracy, to avoid the common vulgarisms, and, to detect the most frequent errors of speech, arrangement, and notation. The ordinary methods of teaching English grammar do little to establish a correct use of language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.