Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Columbian Language Lessons
The drills of this book are so arranged that the child will be able to master by easy steps, in the third, fourth and fifth grades, all the irregular forms of the English tongue. In using language with discrimination, the judgment is developed and the expressive powers are strengthened. The changes in form which words undergo when used in sentences claims the first attention Of teachers and parents. Facts of language must be learned in detail. Definite lessons must fix the attention upon fundamental things, so that there may be proper advance.
This book gives the substance of all good primary work in Part I., which is a summary review of what is usually done in the three lower grades. The salient points only are given, and the live teachers who use this book will be able to supplement the work in various ways. What is given is intended to be simple in statement and rich in exercises.
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