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THE

ELEMENTS

OF

ENGLISH GRAMMAR;

SO ARRANGED AS TO COMBINE THE

ANALYTICAL AND SYNTHETICAL METHODS:

WITH AN

INTRODUCTION FOR BEGINNERS,

AND

VARIOUS EXERCISES, ORAL AND WRITTEN,

FOR THE

FORMATION, ANALYSIS, TRANSFORMATION, CLASSIFICATION, AND
CORRECTION OF SENTENCES.

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BY

SAMUEL S. GREENE, A. M.,

PROFESSOR IN THE NORMAL DEPARTMENT, BROWN UNIVERSITY AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PROVIDENCE.

PHILADELPHIA:

H. COW PERTHWAIT & CO.

BOSTON: SHEPARD, CLARK & CO.

1858.

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Satered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, bp

SAMUEL S. GREENE,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Rhode Letters

PREFACE.

THE design of this new work - for it is essentially new — As to combine in one treatise all the distinguishing features of the "Analysis" and "The First Lessons." The departments of Orthography and Etymology are made sufficiently full, and their principles are illustrated by a great variety of examples. Oral Exercises, Exercises for Parsing and for the Correction of Errors, are introduced in their appropriate places, under each part of speech. The Syntax contains all the essential distinctions found in the "Analysis,” but differently arranged, and less rigidly and technically set forth.

In the presentation of a subject like that of English Grammar, the first question which naturally arises is that of the point of view from which it shall be examined. Shall the forms of language be regarded as direct results from thought, as the offspring of an inner impulse? or shall they be looked upon as possessing in themselves, regardless of their origin, all that is necessary to guide to a successful investigation? The one may be called the interior, the other the exterior, point of view. From the one point, language is regarded as organized under the influence of a vital, life-imparting power, determining all its outward forms and manifestations; while from the other it becomes a lifeless frame, to be dissected and examined, for the purpose of ascertaining what it is, and of what it is composed. At one point, the learner is

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