Manual With Course Of Study In Language Grammar And Composition For The Elementary Schools Of Indiana

Author : William Swinton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330155714
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book New Language Lessons written by William Swinton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Language Lessons: An Elementary Grammar and Composition The present text-book is a new-modelling and rewriting of Swinton's Language Lessons. It has grown out of a double motive - first, the desire of better fitting it to fill its place as the intermediate book of the "New Language Series;" and, next, the conviction that an elementary manual might be made, which, combining the essentials of English Grammar and Composition, should find especial welcome in schools that cannot he exactly graded. The remarkable favour with which the Language Lessons was received has suggested the propriety of retaining, in the new book, at least the spirit of the old. In that work the author's theory was set forth in the following words: - "This book is an attempt to bring the subject of language home to children at the age when knowledge is acquired in an objective way, by practice and habit, rather than by the study of rules and definitions, in pursuance of this plan, the traditional presentation of grammar in a bristling array of classifications, nomenclatures, and paradigms has been wholly discarded. The pupil is brought in contact with the living language itself: he is made to deal with speech, to turn it over in a variety of ways, to handle sentences; so that lie is not kept back from the exercise - so profitable and interesting - of using language till he has mastered the anatomy of the grammarian. Whatever of technical grammar is here given is evolved from work previously done by the scholar." 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.