An English Grammar Adapted To The Capacities Of Children

Author : George G. Vasey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330371152
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book English Grammar Made Easy, and Adapted to the Capacity of Children written by George G. Vasey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Grammar Made Easy, and Adapted to the Capacity of Children: In Which English Accidence and Etymological Parsing Are Rendered Simple and Attractive Children, in general, have an aversion to Grammar. Their universal complaints are that it is difficult, - that it is disagreeable, - that, in fact, they cannot understand it. We sincerely feel and acknowledge the justness of these complaints. At the same time, we are fully convinced that the cause of these obstructions does not exist so much in the subject of Grammar itself, as in the manner in which the subject has been treated. Although we have examined upwards of thirty different English Grammars, we have not seen one adapted to the capacity of children: they are all decidedly too technical, even in their very first lessons, and consequently too abstruse for the use of children. They demand an amount of knowledge in children of seven or eight years, which is rarely possessed by youths of twelve or fourteen. It is very important that children should commence their grammatical studies early. Vulgarisms and other improprieties of speech, as well as imperfections in Orthography and Syntax, when once acquired, are very tenacious, and can never be thoroughly eradicated. It is, therefore, highly desirable that an elementary book on English Grammar, at once easy and interesting, should be placed in the hands of our younger pupils: such a book is an important desideratum. It is confidently hoped that this desideratum will be adequately supplied by the present publication. The simplicity and novelty of the plan upon which it is constructed, will be readily understood from the following summary. 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.