PROGRESSIVE STUDIES IN ENGLISH-II AN ELEMENTARY ENGLISH GRAMMAR BY ALMA BLOUNT, Ph. D. (Cornell) = INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH IN THE MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL COLLEGE AND CLARK S. NORTHUP, Ph. D. (Cornell) ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY Οὐ πολλὰ αλλά πολύ NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY EducT 759.11.220 May 23, 1912. TRANSFERRED TO 1932 COPYRIGHT, 1911 BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY T. MOREY & SON PREFACE In publishing, under the general title of Progressive Studies in English, a series of volumes intended for use in American grade and high schools, the authors desire to say that it has been their aim to furnish manuals of grammar and composition that shall prove eminently practical and helpful from the point of view of both teacher and pupil. There is still such great variety of opinions among teachers of these subjects that no writer of text-books can hope to please all classes. The views of the authors of these books must be described in general as conservative; they have adopted, however, with gratitude, the best suggestions of recent writers on the teaching of language regardless of schools of thought. It is believed that these books will be found to provide a minimum of theory with the maximum amount of practice, based on models of acknowledged excellence. It has been deemed wise to gather further discussion of purpose and method in grammar in the elementary grades into a small pamphlet which the publishers will take pleasure in sending to all teachers interested. |