The learner is introduced to all the parts of speech, and shown how to recognise them by the work they do. There are lessons on: Nouns, common and proper, the simpler aspects of number, gender and case; Adjectives, of quality, of quantity, demonstrative and interrogative; Sentences, parts of sentences (subject, predicate and object), the distinction between sentences and phrases.

As in all the books, there are numerous exercises on every section of the work.