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PREFACE.

THE First Part of this book is intended for pupils so
far advanced as to be able to distinguish the Parts of
Speech. The author's object has been to teach elementary English Grammar as simply as is consistent with
the honest recognition of difficulties, and not to accumulate masses of information that might be of use to
foreigners, but must be useless to English boys.
I have been accused, by a very friendly and favorable reviewer, of " unkindness " in completely ignoring
the " Article " in my introductory treatise How to Tell
the Parts of Speech. It has occurred to me, in consequence, to prefix to this work a Glossary of Grammatical Terms - many of them, let us hope, obsolete or
obsolescent. Here the pupil may now and then refresh
his memory as to the meaning of Article, Genitive,
Nominative, Accusative, Case, Proper Noun, Conjugation, Decline, and the like; and by this means he will
be able to satisfy himself that many of these terms,
when applied to the Grammar of his native tongue,
are absolutely superfluous or erroneous. It is also
probable that ready access to a Glossary, explaining
etymologically Cardinal, Inflection, Apostrophe, Climax,
Bathos, Verse, &c., may in many cases be of positive
as well as negative benefit.
The Exercises are specially written to illustrate the
rules. This has involved some labor; but I am convinced that the labor was well spent. A pupil cannot

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