Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Systematic Course of Exercises and Questions in English Grammar: For Use in Public Schools, High Schools and Collegiate Institutes
It is the hope of the present writer that within a few years Grammar will be felt to be a great help in the study of our language and literature and at the same time as useful an educator of the more solid faculties of the mind as any other subject. Meanwhile we should feel deeply the debt of gratitude we owe to recent writers who have done so much to cut loose from the methods of the synthetic grammars and to make this great study less ludicrous than formerly.
It is impossible to treat English Grammar inductively in the full sense of the word, especially in chapters on the parts of speech; but no doubt the 'day is not im measurably distant when that worn out classification will be forgotten and words will be classified according to their place in the English sentence.
The following tests have been kept constantly in View to prevent useless questions.
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