WITH AN EXPOSITION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL BY J. D. MORELL, A.M., ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTORS OF SCHOOLS. FIFTH EDITION, REVISED, AND FURNISHED WITH ILLUSTRATIVE EXERCISES. LONDON: ROBERT THEOBALD, 26, PATERNOSTER ROW. MANCHESTER: SIMMS AND CO., GALT AND CO. 1955. 302.6.16. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, THE publication of this little work has been suggested, and in a sense necessitated by a deficiency experienced in the course of my official duties, as an Inspector of Schools, This deficiency was most felt in the collective examinations of Pupil Teachers, where, beyond the ordinary modes of parsing, I found it almost impossible to give out any questions on Syntax and the Analysis of Sentences, to which a common meaning was attached by the pupils assembled, or any number of distinct answers returned. The capacity of parsing individual words with accuracy is now expected of all the more advanced scholars in every well conducted school. It has not yet, however, been well understood that this is but the Alphabet of Grammar; and that the mental advantage to be derived from the science can only be secured, by leading the pupil to a further analysis of language, of which the separate words give us merely the elements. To guide the pupil through such a course of grammatical analysis is the object I have had in view in the following pages, which, although brief, will be found to contain general principles that may be expanded by the intelligent teacher into innumerable examples and illustrations. |