Tests in English - Themetic Vocabulary - Mariusz Misztal
The following book comprises more than 400 vocabulary tests in various thematic fields. Very useful selection of words makes this book an excellent resouruce for people preparing for the proficiency examination. The tests are divided into three levels of difficulty: the most used; sophisticated; specialised.
Historical Outlines of English Accidence Comprising chapters on the history and development of the language, and on word formation. Richard Morris (September 8, 1833 – May 12, 1894), was an English philologist. Morris was born in London. In 1871 he was ordained in the Church of England, and from 1875-1888 was head master of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys, near London. His first published work was The Etymology of Local Names (1857).Between 1862 and 1880 he prepared twelve volumes for the Early English Text Society, edited the work of Geoffrey Chaucer (1866) and Edmund Spenser (1869) from the original manuscripts, and published Specimens of Early English (1867).His educational works, Historical Outlines of English Accidence (1872), Elementary Lessons in Historical English Grammar (1874) and English Grammar (1874), had a large sale and exercised a real influence.The rest of his life he devoted to the study of Pali, on which he became a recognized authority. He died at Harold Wood, Essex. (Wikipedia)
Exercises in English Composition by William F. Mozier (Rare Book Collection)
Students who have reached the high school have already spent much time in the study of the English language. They have studied English grammar for several years, and have had their grammatical errors pointed out to them again and again. They have been taught spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraphing, and have written innumerable specimens of narration and description, not to mention exposition and argumentation. In short, they consider "English Composition" an old story; yet too often we find them well on their way through the high school course or even graduated from the school, making the same old mistakes and exhibiting the same old weaknesses, in both oral and written composition. Why is this? Is the English language so difficult a means of expressing thought that young people cannot master it?
Old English Grammar by Joseph Wright & Elizabeth Mary Wright (Rare Book Collection)
This Grammar is not intended for specialists, therefore some details of more or less importance have been intentionally omitted, but the volume contains all that the ordinary student will require to know about the subject. The student who thoroughly masters the book will not only have gained a comprehensive knowledge of Old English, but will also have acquired the elements of Comparative Germanic grammar.