The Comic English Grammar: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Comic English Grammar by Percival Leigh: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 18 original MP3 tracks, 3:38:32 running time and a link to listen.
The Comic English Grammar, credited to Percival Leigh, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Comic English Grammar by Percival Leigh (1813 - 1889), read in English by Ruth Golding. This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that there is quite a dated feel about this little grammar as the author, in keeping with the times (1840), is a frightful snob about social classes, scathing about 'vulgar speech' and also sometimes quite rude about American turns of phrase. The author is not remotely as comical as he thinks he is, but it has its moments. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Comic English Grammar
- Author credits: Percival Leigh
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 18
- Listed recording duration: 3:38:32
Catalogue topics
- humor
- humour
- verse
- manners
- etiquette
- pronunciation
- punctuation
- parts of speech
Track guide
- 00 - Preliminary Discourse — 8:16
- 01 - Part I Orthography — 18:11
- 02 - Pt. II Etymology Ch. 1 Parts of Speech — 8:18
- 03 - Pt. II Etymology Ch. 2 Articles — 3:28
- 04 - Pt. II Etymology Ch. 3 Substantives — 13:09
- 05 - Pt. II Etymology Ch. 4 Adjectives — 6:13
- 06 - Pt. II Etymology Ch. 5 Pronouns — 13:18
- 07 - Pt. II Etymology Ch. 6 Verbs — 21:28
- 08 - Pt. II Etymology Ch. 7 Adverbs — 3:28
- 09 - Pt. II Etymology Ch. 8 and 9 Prepositions and Conjunctions — 3:48
- 10 - Pt. II Etymology Ch. 10 Derivation — 7:09
- 11 - Pt. III Syntax Rule I — 13:20
- 12 - Pt. III Syntax Rules II - XV — 18:07
- 13 - Pt. III Syntax Rules XVI to XXII — 14:47
- 14 - Pt. IV Prosody Ch. 1 Pronunciation — 28:53
- 15 - Pt. IV Prosody Ch. 2 Versification — 23:12
- 16 - Pt. IV Prosody Ch. 3 Punctuation — 3:41
- 17 - Address to Young Students — 9:52
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