Experienced teachers of English, however, find that, in grammar schools at least, the accidence and syntax needed for the purpose of composition can usually be mastered by pupils of average ability in the equivalent of one weekly lesson for about three years; in other kinds of school more time would probably be necessary.
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Children should grasp the enormous enrichment of vocabulary, the simpler patterning of accidence, the move towards a standardized form of pronunciation and spelling, and the increasing subtlety of the general structure of sentences, especially the larger proportion of subordinated groups in modern English as compared with say that of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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According to Carol Percy, " The Accidence " seems to have been the first English grammar directed exclusively to a female audience . Despite being written for girls, Devis s grammar was recommended by her peers as a general introduction to Robert Lowth s " Short Introduction to English Grammar " ( 1762 ).
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Terence and Petronius use bits of Vulgar Latin in their plays, and both the syntax and the accidence are somewhat different . ( This is about the limit of my knowledge of this-and I've lent my copy of Baldi's " The History of Latin " to somebody, so I can't check up ) .-- talk ) 08 : 54, 1 June 2014 ( UTC)
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Admissions following the charter also changed, with " none to be admitted scholar into the said school before he be brought to the schoolmaster of that school, and upon his examination shall be found to have learned the rudiments of grammar, called the Accidence . " All scholars from the town of Guildford were required to pay the master 5 shillings on admission to the school, and for those from outside the town the charge was 10s.
