Lessons in Language and Literature

Huber Gray Buehler, Caroline Woodbridge Hotchkiss

Newson, 1906 - English language - 262 pages

Contents

• THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE: 1
• Young Night Thought: 5
• We Tell Ideas by Tongue Sounds or Words: 8
• Hiawathas Childhood: 11
• How Language is Written: 13
• Summary of Chapter I: 17
• THE WRITING OF NAMES AND SENTENCES Section VIII Sentence Writing: 21
• How Names of Persons are Written: 25
• Choosing a Name: 27
• How Initials are Written: 29
• The Water Lily: 31
• How I and O are Written: 33
• When the Little Boy Ran Away: 35
• Ownership or Possession: 39
• How Names of Months are Written: 41
• Octobers Bright Blue Weather: 43
• How Names of Days are Written: 46
• How Names of Places are Written: 48
• The Law of the Jungle: 50
• How Titles are Written: 53
• Opportunity: 55
• How Dates are Written: 56
• Picture StudyLost Section XXV Contractions Section XXV Contractions Section XXVI Twickenham Ferry: 61
• Quotations: 63
• A Mad Tea Party: 67
• Divided Quotations: 69
• Alec Yeatons: 72
• The Comma in Address: 75
• A TarBaby: 77
• The Comma in a Series: 83
• The Hyphen: 86
• The Sandpiper: 88
• Paragraphs: 90
• Summary: 91
• Section XXXIXXLII Supplementary Work: 93
• COMMON ERRORS: 99
• Is and Are: 101
• Was and Were: 104
• Has and Have: 107
• Did and Done: 109
• Give and Gave: 111
• See Saw and Seen: 112
• May and Can: 113
• Them and Those: 114
• Learn and Teach: 116
• Leave and Let: 118
• BOOK II: 125
• Addresses: 134
• A Letter from Lord Macaulay: 140
• Business Letters: 147
• Supplementary Work: 153
• The Brook: 160
• Composition Subject A Brook: 166
• Position of the Subject: 167
• An Autumn Afternoon: 170
• The Simple Subject: 172
• Composition SubjectA Walk: 174
• The Verb: 175
• Mine Host of The Golden Apple: 178
• Verbs Containing More Than One Word: 179
• Complements: 183
• Lucy Section LXXX In School Days: 185
• Composition SubjectsA Building and A Schoolhouse: 188
• Direct Objects: 189
• The Tourney: 191
• Attribute Complements: 192
• Rivers: 193
• Modifiers: 196
• At Sea: 198
• Phrases: 201
• Clauses: 205
• Classification of Sentences: 210
• Composition SubjectSelection about a Clock: 212
• Castles in Spain: 213
• Punctuation of Phrases and Clauses: 215
• Where Lies the Land ?: 217
• Summary of Chapter V: 219
• THE PARTS OF SPEECH: 221
• Robin Redbreast: 226
• Composition SubjectSnow: 230
• Pronouns: 231
• Young Lochinvar: 233
• Composition SubjectIs Man a Good Creature ? From the Birds Point of View 40: 237
• Adjectives: 238
• The King of Denmarks Ride: 241
• Composition SubjectA Ride: 244
• Adverbs: 245
• How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Air: 248
• Composition SubjectA Noble Horse: 251
• Prepositions: 252
• The National Flag: 254
• Composition SubjectsThe Old Flag The Stars and Stripes in the Philip pines What the Flag of the Oregon Saw Serving Our Country: 256
• Conjunctions: 257
• Interjections: 259
• Composition SubjectA Summer Evening: 260
• Composition SubjectsOur Neighborhood What I Like to Do A Place I Enjoy My Favorite Room A Strange Looking Package on Christmas Eve Lost i...: 261

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lessons in Language and Literature; Lessons in Language and Literature, Caroline Woodbridge Hotchkiss; Book 1 of Modern English series
• Authors: Huber Gray Buehler, Caroline Woodbridge Hotchkiss
• Publisher: Newson, 1906
• Original from: Indiana University
• Digitized: May 28, 2009
• Length: 262 pages