EXERCISES IN GRAMMAR BY MAUDE M. FRANK, A.B. INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH, DE WITT CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL, AUTHOR OF "CONSTRUCTIVE EXERCISES IN ENGLISH" LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET 1911 MAY 29 1911 COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS 890 F828 PREFACE FOR a variety of reasons, the training in grammar given in the elementary school is not a final equipment for high school work. In the secondary school, therefore, some new phases of the problem must be considered. The work in foreign languages, as well as in English, requires at once greater breadth of treatment and closer discrimination in the application of the laws of grammatical relation than can be given in the elementary school stage. The study of grammar, therefore, should be continued in the high school. It should, however, be not merely a review, but a development of the earlier course, and yet, since there can be no time for extended study, it must remain a subsidiary subject, taught with great concentration and economy of energy, the question of emphasis being kept constantly in the foreground. The aim of the present book is to provide the material needed for the rapid intensive work which is most practical and most profitable in the high school. To this end, groups of exercises, each containing a considerable number of sentences selected from standard literature, have been so prepared as to illustrate the normal forms and constructions of the language. Theory has been limited to the presentation of the points necessary for intelligent progress from exercise to exercise, and has therefore been stated as briefly as possible. The material has been arranged, primarily, V 218951 |