Inductive Studies In English Grammar

Author : William Rainey Harper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330019993
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Inductive Studies in English Grammar written by William Rainey Harper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Inductive Studies in English Grammar In recent years the conviction has frequently and emphatically been expressed that the grammar school course ought to be both shortened and enriched; that much now in the course might be taken out, not only without loss, but with positive gain, and that much might be brought in which would make it a far more adequate preparation for the high school. Many, including the authors of this book, believe that, while many pupils in our grammar schools will never be able to enter the high school, yet the principles of a true democracy demand that all should be so taught as to render it easy for them to advance in knowledge, if the way should be opened. In all high schools of good grade some foreign language is studied immediately upon entrance, and to many pupils it presents unusual difficulties. It is not too much to say that more than one half of the total number of failures in Latin in our high schools are due, not to any lack of capacity on the part of the pupil, or to any inherent difficulty in the language itself, but to a lack of practical mastery of English grammar. This little book is a modest attempt to secure better preparation for the language work of the high school by a scientific and thought-inspiring method of presenting English grammar, by a reduction of the number of facts presented, to the few actually essential, by increased emphasis on certain matters often neglected but essential to any real mastery of the subject, and by adapting the terminology and method of presentation more closely to that used in German and Latin grammars. These "Inductive Studies" were printed three years ago, and bound for ready reference with the "Inductive Latin Primer" of the same authors. 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.