A COMMON-SCHOOL GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. COMPREHENSIVE GRAMMAR," 66 FIRST LESSONS IN GRAMMAR," ETC. Sacred Interpreter of human thought, How few respect I use thee brought!" COWPER, on Language. IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR & CO., NEW YORK AND CHICAGO. Educ T T 758.80.550 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRAR GĦT OF GEORGE ARTHUR PLIMPTON TO THE TEACHER. You can not teach any science successfully, unless you are perfectly familiar with your text-book. Even if you understand the general subject, it will be well for you to study every evening the lesson which you expect to hear the next day: for you will thus be enabled to make the recitations much more instructive and interesting. The first 33 pages of this book are designed for the teacher as well as for the pupil; and these pages may be compared to a garden that is filled with a comprehensive assortment of plants arranged in natural order, through which the pupils are led as observers before they are required to botanize. You may simply talk over these pages to your class,-explain, analyze, and parse, while you require them to pay the closest attention to what you say It will be also well to present with this part a series of blackboard exercises, according to the sug. gestions given at the end of the book The next 36 pages may be taught as you find them; thougn it is not necessary to commit more to memory than will satisfy the questions on page 57. The next 171 pages should not be learned com pletely at first but only so much should be taken as will suffice for parsing and analysis This amount will comprise only the defini tions of the parts of speech, their classes, and their properties, the declension, the list of irregular verbs, and the conjugation; the rules of syntax, the formulas for parsing, and a mere outline of analysis. Now let the pupils daily analyze and parse the exercises from page 241 to page 276, unfolding every thing carefully in the order in which the exercises are given and at the same time let them review again and again pages 70-240, in connection with this daily drilling. The remainder of the book can be easily conquered after this middle part is mastered. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by SIMON KERL In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, |