Chapter 5, Item 124a
Grammar
Grammar described
By Grammar is comprehended all sorts of Learning, the Art or Science of Grammar is the right way of Speaking and Writing with Reason and Authority. It is the Study and Profession of Letters and good Literature or Learning, and is the product of all other Arts and Sciences whatsoever. It is described by Men and Women, or them singly reading in Books, having laid by them Volums, Tomes, Folio's, and Books of all sorts and sizes on Tables or Desks, and stands by them.
Grammar, as by it is understood all sorts of Learning, it may then briefly be defined under these several notions, viz. Letters, Words, Sentences.
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Chapter 5, Item 124b
Letters
The first and more simple Ingredients required in Grammar, is the information and Instruction of Letters; of some termed the Elements of Learning, which is the Letters of the Alphabet, which consists in these several termed expressions.
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Chapter 5, Item 124c
Words
The joyning of one, two, or more Syllables together, is the production of Words and these are differently expressed, as may be gathered from what follows.
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Chapter 5, Item 124d
Sentences
Sentences, are the joyning of many words together whereby to give the generall description or knowledge of things, with all its Circumstances: Which may be done either in writing or speaking. Else it is more Scholastically defined to be, Complex Grammaticall Notions, delivered in speech or writing. And is of the Learned termed a Period, Text, Aphorism, Axiome, Impress, Motto, Poesie, Phrase.
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