Graded Lessons in English: An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class Room (Classic Reprint)

Preface. On a. Bingle point, at least, allE nglish grammarians are united. They hold, that, by the study of Grammar, the pupil should acquire the art of using theE nglish language with propriety. A study of the science that does not issue in this, all agree, fails of its proper end. They diverge, only when they set forth the mewM to this end. The greater number bewilder the pupil with prolix discussions, and vex him with obscure definitions, and numberless rules with their suicidal exceptions. They load his memory with technicalities and appall him with authorities and duU his understanding with endless routine parsing and analysis. With them. Grammar is a science or it is nothing. This the pupil finds to his cost; but it scarcely dawns upon him that Grammar is intended to aid him in communicating his thoughts by tongue and by pen. In reaction from this extreme, many have sprung to the other. To these. Grammar hardly seems to be a science at all; there are few principles in it that challenge serious attention; it demands no definitions that even approach exactness; everything may be loose in treatment and in statement, if only Grammar may be made easy, practical, and popular. This reaction is just now at its flood.
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