LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AMERICAN ENGLISH
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The History book, The Grammar book, The Reader book
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The Literature book, The Reader book, The History book
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The Grammar Book, The Spelling Book, The Reader Book
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The Grammar book, The Literature book, The Reader Book
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Detailed explanation-1: -Webster thought that Americans should learn from American books, so he began writing the three volume compendium A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. The work consisted of a speller (published in 1783), a grammar (published in 1784), and a reader (published in 1785).
Detailed explanation-2: -The spelling book provided much of Webster’s income for the rest of his life, and its total sales have been estimated as high as 100, 000, 000 copies or more. A grammar (1784) and a reader (1785) completed the Institute.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1793 he founded one of New York City’s first daily newspapers, American Minerva, which he edited for four years. Webster’s Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806), a forerunner of An American Dictionary, sparked a “war of the dictionaries” with rival lexicographer Joseph Worchester.
Detailed explanation-4: -Webster hoped to standardize American speech, since Americans in different parts of the country used somewhat different vocabularies and spelled, pronounced, and used words differently. Webster completed his dictionary during his year abroad in 1825 in Paris, and at the University of Cambridge.
Detailed explanation-5: -Noah Webster and America’s First Dictionary. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1758, Noah Webster came of age during the American Revolution and was a strong advocate of the Constitutional Convention.