THE FIRST LINES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR; BEING A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF THE AUTHOR'S LARGER WORK, THE 66 INSTITUTES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR." DESIGNED FOR YOUNG LEARNERS. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION EHAND STANFORD BYUNIOR UNIVERSITY AUTHOR OF THE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH GRAMMARS. A NEW AND REVISED EDITION, ARRANGED TO FORM A SERIES OF LANGUAGE LESSONS, WITH EXERCISES IN ANALYSIS, PARSING, AND CONSTRUCTION. BY HENRY KIDDLE, A. M., LATE SUPERINTENDENT OF COMMON SCHOOLS, NEW YORK CITY. LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVER THE excellence of BROWN'S GRAMMARS, both as treatises and school m very generally acknowledged; but the system of instruction embodied t found to be at variance, in some important respects, with that most go the present time, and favored by the best educators. Experience has parsing, however familiar it may render the pupil with definitions a chanical repetition, does not fully attain the most important end of gran tion, which is to make the learner expert and accurate in the use of lar intelligent in respect to its principles and rules. In the present edition of these grammars, the more modern system of been introduced; the exercises of construction and composition, whic serted in connection with those of analysis and parsing, rendering the series of LANGUAGE LESSONS, and thus insuring to the learner a good pr ance with his mother tongue. The carefully arranged exercises in cor Syntax, under each rule, will greatly contribute to this result. The arbitrary method of presenting elaborate definitions without any I ment of the ideas on which they depend, has been also changed, by the i fully constructed development lessons, so that nothing, either in the use expression of thought, may anticipate the needed explanation. In this has been made to embody the outlines of a system of oral teaching. Numerous corrections and alterations have been made, but not such as t tially with the original system of grammar contained in these works, but sive object of adapting them to a more approved system of practical i improvement in the typography of this new edition will not fail to com to general favor. With these alterations, the publishers hope that these works will be fo to the public, and a more valuable aid to teachers in imparting instructi important branch of education. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, b In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massa PRINTING AND BOOKRINDING COMPANY |