Grammar-land Or, Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire

Grammar-land; Or, Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire

WHAT is Grammar-land? Where is Grammar-land? Have you ever been to Grammar-land? Wait a minute and you shall hear. You will not find Grammar-land marked on the globe, and I never saw a map of it; but then, who ever saw a map of Fairy-land? and yet you have all heard of that, and know a great deal about it, of course. Well, Grammar-land is a place every bit as real as2 Fairy-land, and much more important. The Fairy Queen is all very well, and a very great little queen in her way; but Judge Grammar! great, stern, old Judge Grammar, is far mightier than any Fairy Queen, for he rules over real kings and queens down here in Matter-of-fact-land. Our kings and queens, and emperors too, have all to obey Judge Grammars laws, or else they would talk what is called bad grammar; and then, even their own subjects would laugh at them, and would say: Poor things! When they were children, and lived in Schoolroom-shire, they can never have been taken to Grammar-land! How shocking! And Judge Grammar himselfwell, I cannot say what he would do, as I suppose such a thing never really happened; for who could imagine a king or queen saying, I is, or you was, or it wasnt me. No one speaks in that way except people who have never heard of Judge Grammar. Ah! I wish you could see himthis great Judgesitting on his throne in his court, and giving orders about his precious words, which are the riches of Grammar-land. For Judge Grammar says that all the words that you can say belong really to him, and he can do what he likes with them; he is, in fact, King as well as Judge over Grammar-land. Now, you know that when William the Conqueror conquered England he divided the land among his nobles, and they had it for their own so long as they obeyed the3 king and helped him in his wars. It was just the same with Judge Grammar when he took possession of Grammar-land; he gave all the words to his nine followers, to take for their very own as long as they obeyed him. These nine followers he called the nine Parts-of-Speech, and to one or other of them every word in Grammar-land was given. They are funny fellows, these nine Parts-of-Speech. You will find out by-and-by which you like best amongst them all. There is rich Mr. Noun, and his useful friend Pronoun; little ragged Article, and talkative Adjective; busy Dr. Verb, and Adverb; perky Preposition, convenient Conjunction, and that tiresome Interjection, the oddest of them all. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 66712
Author: Nesbitt, M. L.
Release Date: Nov 12, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Publication Date: 1885
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Illustrator: Waddy, Frederick