Grammar-Land: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Grammar-Land, credited to M.L. Nesbitt, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Grammar-Land, by M.L. Nesbitt. Read by Kara Shallenberg. In this charming 1877 book of grammar instruction for children, we are introduced to the nine parts of speech and learn about the rules that govern them in Grammar-Land. 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 have all to obey Judge Grammar’s 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! 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.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Grammar-Land
• Author credits: M.L. Nesbitt
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 2:45:39

Catalogue topics

• children
• grammar
• instruction
• fiction

Track guide

1. 00 Preface and Introduction — 9:47
2. 01 Mr. Noun — 10:48
3. 02 Little Article — 6:56
4. 03 Mr. Pronoun — 11:19
5. 04 Serjeant Parsing's Visit to Schoolroom-shire — 1:56
6. 05 Mr. Adjective — 10:04
7. 06 Mr. Adjective Tried for Stealing — 11:25
8. 07 The Quarrel Between Mr. Pronoun and Mr. Adjective, and Little Interjection — 13:28
9. 08 Dr. Verb — 10:58
10. 09 Dr. Verb's Three Tenses, and Number, and Persons — 11:50
11. 10 Serjeant Parsing in Schoolroom-Shire Again — 2:34
12. 11 The Nominative Case — 8:47
13. 12 Adverb — 8:55
14. 13 Preposition — 9:23
15. 14 Prepositions Govern the Objective Case — 8:51
16. 15 Conjunction — 8:36
17. 16 Active Verbs Govern the Objective Case — 10:32
18. 17 The Possessive Case, and Who's to Have the Prize? — 9:41

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