Author: Benjamin Y. Conklin

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9781330215050

Excerpt from A Complete Grade Course in English Grammar and Composition This book is designed to be a practical working manual for the assistance of the teacher as well as the pupil. The author has sought to present the subject in an easy, natural, and progressive way, and, as far as possible, to avoid repetition; yet, by a judicious selection of graded sentences and carefully arranged questions for review, to keep before the mind of the learner what he has already learned. Indeed, in their gradation, the sentences themselves are a concrete presentation of the whole subject. The questions at the end of the lessons are so framed as to require the pupil, after studying the text carefully, to formulate his own answers. This fact will often make it necessary for the teacher to examine a lesson with the class before assigning it to be learned. The theory of the book is the gradual development of the sentence; the method, inductive. Beginning with the simplest form of the sentence, as "Birds fly," only one new element is added in any single lesson; so that a thorough mastery of each lesson ought to result. The author has endeavored to avoid an excess of language-work on the one hand, and too much formal parsing and analysis on the other. Analysis and synthesis are carried along together, in due proportion and relation. By this method of treatment, the pupil acquires not only a knowledge of the structure of the sentence, but also the power to use language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.