Excerpt from The Sketch-Book
This book has been prepared to meet the requirements for First Year English and Advanced. English prescribed by the Regents of the University of the State of New York. All the essays from the "Sketch Book" prescribed for the study of literature are included, two of them the - "Stage Coach" and the "Mutability of Literature" - being made the subject of an extended grammatical study, inductively developed. By means of questions and suggestions, the pupil, whose familiarity with the elementary forms of the English sentence is taken for granted, is led to observe for himself and to compare and classify grammatical facts. Aids in this direction are offered in the form of references to standard grammars and a series of supplementary notes dealing with points of special difficulty. These suggestions obviate the vagueness apt to result from questions asked without any guidance.
Too much time is often spent on the study of single words as parts of speech,in the neglect of the analysis of sentences into their constituent parts. In this book special attention is devoted to these major elements of sentence structure, for they are not only the foundations of grammar, but also the epitome of rhetoric, and a clear knowledge of such relations affords the student a ready tool in his later study of paragraph structure.
As the exercises in this book, almost in their entirety, have passed a successful test in class-room work, a suggestion as to the best plan of using them may not be amiss. In writing the exercises, the pupils should be directed to indicate the phrases and clauses so far as practicable in abridged form. Special attention should be given to the orderly arrangement of the work, and to expression, punctuation, etc.
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