alytical practical grammar - Toronto Public Library

PREFACE
THIS work is prepnred on a more extended plan than the "Principles
of English Grammar," and ia intended to occupy a higher plnce in the
.. Series of Grammars, Engli~h, Latin, and Greek, on the same plan."
Since that work was first publi.hed, a greater inter~st !Jn~ been taken iu
the subject of educ,ltion generally thau for n long period before. Differ·
ence of opinion, on vari:JIls subjects, hus led to diE'cussion-diEcussicn to
inveE'tigation-and investigation to the discovery and establishment of
truth. As a consequrnce of this, that which was sonnd and stable before
has been confirmed-many points that were doubtful have been settlednew
and improved tlJethods of investigating subjects, and of imparting
instrnction, have been adopted-and the whole subject of education, in
both theory and practice, has been advanced much beyond what it was
at any former period. In this onward progress, the subject of English
grammar haa not been left behind. Teachers in both higher and lower
seminaries have given it their attention-authorities have been compared
-original investigations have been made-views Imve been interchanged,
privately and through the press-ull resulting in the advancement of
this branch of study.
The subject of ANALYSIS, wholly omitted in the former work, is here
introduced in its proper place, and to an extent in accordance with its
importance. Many questions on disputed points have been examined
with much care; and something, it is hoped, has been done to contribute
to their settlement; und when this required more space than was proper
to be taken up in the body of the work, the diecuBsion has been thrown
into the Appendix. A much -gl'eater variety of exercises has be ell introduced
at every step, with directions for the manner of using them. To
every part of speech, an oral exercise, of the indllcti ve kind, has been
annexed as a specimen of the way in which the mind of the leal'Der may
be trained to think aDd reason on the subject, and prepllred to profit more
by the exercises that follow.
By adopting the plnn of a running series of numbers to mark the para·
graphs, reference from one part to another is rendered more convenient,
and is employed wherever it wus thought to be profitable.
The Syntax is much fuller than ill the former work; and though the
rules are not different, they ure arranged in a different order, 80 that all
that belongs to one iubject is collected under one head, instead of being