The Elements of English Grammar: With Suggestions for Composition Work (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Elements of English Grammar: With Suggestions for Composition Work

I'r may be felt by many that there should be some reasonable justification for adding another text-book on grammar to the long list of such books already before the teaching public; and it is not without a constant recognition of this fact that this book has been prepared. It would seem almost impossible at this late day to present anything very strikingly new in a science as old as that of the grammar of our language. Not only has the field been worked over and over, but the field itself is by nature limited. Both from their logical and their historical points of view the grammatical subtleties of our tongue have been ex plained by one author or another in almost every conceivable way, and about all that has been left to the student of grammar is a choice among authorities.

It is not the purpose of this book to add anything new along these line's. As its name indicates, it is an elementary treatise of the subject'. It is intended for use in the upper grades of grammar schools, where it is believed that the teaching of gram mar is found most difficult. The only excuse for being that can be claimed for the book must be upon the basis of its order of arrangement, its method, its simplicity and clearness. In other words, whatever merits it may have are fundamentally pedagogic.

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