EEN NEDERDUYTSCHE GRAMMATICA, om perfect de Neder-duytsche Tale te leeren. A NETHERDUTCH GRAMMAR, to learne perfectly the Nederdutch Tongue.
GRAMMAR (called the Spraeck-konst,) is the art of speaking well.
| The Elementary Rudements of Speech (as in other tongues) are Letters, for of Letters are made Syllables, of Syllables Words, and of Words Speeches and Sentences. |
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Of the Parts of Grammar.
| Grammar consists in these two parts, 1. in Words, 2. in the variation of words. |
| In Words are taught also these two parts; Orthographie, or the right manner of writing; 2. Prosodie, or the rule of pronouncing words truely or short. |
| By the knowledge of words, and the variation of words, reasons are joyned together, this is called Syntaxie, or Construction of words, and Etymologie the true exposition of a word. |
| In the Netherdutch Speech there are sixe and twentie letters, whose figures and names are these following: A, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z. |
| These Netherdutch letters differ from our English in tone and sound, and come neerer the French pronunciation then ours doe. |
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