THE ETYMOLOGY AND SYNTAX OF MURRAY'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR SYSTEMATICALLY ARRANGED, AND CONTAINING MUCH ADDITIONAL MATTER, WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES BY CHARLOTTE KENNION. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO. 4, STATIONERS' HALL COURT. 1842. PREFACE. THE Author's design, in presenting the following work to the Public, is to assist young persons in the study of the elementary parts of the English language; and, by giving them a correct view of the general principles of Grammar, to facilitate their acquisition of other languages. It may, perhaps, be thought in some measure presumptuous to attempt to improve a portion of a work, which has, for so many years, been the standard book on the subject of English Grammar, and indeed almost the only one, which has had general circulation in the public and private seminaries of our land. If any apology is necessary for an effort so apparently bold and adventurous, it will be found in the fact that in placing Murray's Grammar and Exercises in the hands of a pupil as a book of instruction, it has been necessary, in order to convey, step by step, an و |