Lex

Browse

GenresShelvesPremiumBlog

Company

AboutJobsPartnersSell on LexAffiliates

Resources

DocsInvite FriendsFAQ

Legal

Terms of ServicePrivacy Policygeneral@lex-books.com(215) 703-8277

© 2026 LexBooks, Inc. All rights reserved.

Comic English Grammar

Percival Leigh

Comic English Grammar

Comic English Grammar

Percival Leigh

Comic English Grammar, written by Percival Leigh in 1840, is a basic grammar guide that covers parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation, and punctuation. The book reflects the social attitudes of its time, with Leigh displaying a snobbish disdain for 'vulgar speech' and American expressions. While intended to be humorous, the author's comedic approach may not resonate with all readers, though it does contain moments of wit. This work is notable for its historical perspective on English grammar and societal norms of the 19th century.

LibriVox

This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The list...

Editions

Book cover
Audiobook
Human narrated
Human
R

Read by

Ruth Golding

3h 38m

More books from this author

P
Percival Leigh
1813-1889

Founding contributor to Punch, known for his sharp wit and social satire.

The ComicEnglishGrammar: ANew and...

Percival Leigh

Jack theGiant Killer

1843

Percival Leigh

Portraits ofChildren ofthe Mobility

1841

Percival Leigh

ComicArithmetic

1844

Percival Leigh

Comic Arithmetic

More books like this

right arrow

Helps toLatinTranslationat Sight

Edmund Luce

The SlangDictionary:Etymologic...Historica...

John Camden Hotten

The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Anecdotal

The Book ofWonders:Gives Plainand Simpl...

Unknown

The Book of Wonders: Gives Plain and Simple Answers to the Thousands of Everyday Questions That Are Asked and Which All Should Be Able to, but Cannot Answer...

A MilitaryDictionaryandGazetteer

Thomas Wilhelm

A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

Language:Its Nature,Developmentand Origin

Otto Jespersen

Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin

A Dictionaryof the Firstor OldestWords in ...

Herbert Coleridge

A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.d. 1250 to 1300

The NumberConcept: ItsOrigin andDevelopment

Levi L. Conant

Dialogues inFrench andEnglish

1900

William Caxton

Dialogues in French and English

How to WriteLetters(formerlythe Book ...

Mary Owens Crowther

Principlesof LiteraryCriticism

1924

I. A. Richards

Principles of Literary Criticism

A Dictionaryof EnglishSynonymesand...

Richard Soule

The Life ofCardinalMezzofanti:With an...

Charles William Russell

The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti: With an Introductory Memoir of Eminent Linguists, Ancient and Modern

FifteenThousandUsefulPhrases: ...

Grenville Kleiser

A Key Intothe Languageof America,or an Hel...

Roger Williams

A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives…

MyAutobiogra...A Fragment

1901

F. Max Müller

Dissertati...on theEnglishLanguage,...

Noah Webster

Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical;to Which Is Added, by Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, with Dr. Franklin's Arguments on That Subject