Green Baker, presumably a student at a freedman's school, signed this grammar lesson.
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A pleasant way to learn Grammar Three Little Words
Three Little Words You Sometimes See Are Articles a an and the A noun is the Name of anything As School or Garden Hoop or swing Adjectives tell the kind of noun As Great small pretty White or Brown instead of nouns the Bro nouns stand her head his face your arm my hand Verbs tell at something to be done to Read Write Count Sing Jump or Run how things Are done the Advrbs tell As slowly quickly ill or Well Conjunctions join the words together as men and [?] wind or Weather the Preposition stands before a noun As in or through the door the interjection shows surpries as oh how pretty Ah how Wise the Whole Are called nine parts of speech Which reading Writing Speaking teach
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About Green Baker
Green Baker was a student. The letter is from 1865 or 1866.