A Short System of English Grammar / For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759)

The author presents a concise, practical grammar aimed at school learners, arguing that rules must follow English usage rather than imitate Latin; he rejects cases and grammatical gender as inapplicable and treats possessive endings and prepositions as separate particles. The text divides grammar into orthography, prosody, analogy, and syntax, defines nine parts of speech, and offers clear treatments of articles, nouns, pronouns, number, plural formation (regular and irregular), and degrees of comparison. Emphasis is on simple, schoolroom instruction with examples and rules designed to make English grammar accessible to young students.