This Word language we may, from its superiority, call +Language Proper+.
Natural language, as was said, precedes this Word language, but gives way
as Word language comes in and takes its place; yet Natural language may be
used, and always should be used, to assist and strengthen Word language. In
earnest conversation we enforce what we say in words, by the tone in which
we utter them, by the varying expression of the face, and by the movements
of the different parts of the body.
The look or the gesture may even dart ahead of the word, or it may
contradict it, and thus convict the speaker of ignorance or deception.
The happy union of the two kinds of language is the charm of all good
reading and speaking. The teacher of elocution is ever trying to recall the
pupil to the tones, the facial expression, and the action, so natural to
him in childhood and in animated conversation.
+DEFINITION.--_Language Proper_ consists of the spoken and the written
words used to communicate ideas and thoughts+.
+DEFINITION.--_English Grammar_ is the science which teaches the forms,
uses, and relations of the words of the English language.+
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LESSON 2.
A TALK ON THOUGHTS AND SENTENCES.
To express a thought we use more than a single word, and the words arranged
to express a thought we call a sentence.
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