Excerpt from The Public School GrammarSome grammarians make a fourth class, which they call Exclama tory. Exclamations, however, when fully expressed in the form of sentences, are either assertions, questions, or commands, requests, or wishes, and do not, therefore, really form a distinct class of sentences.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book...
Excerpt from Common Errors in Speaking and Writing and How to Avoid Them: A Series of Exercises, With Notes, Cautions and Suggestion, For the Use of Teachers, Pupils and Private StudentsIN laying before my fellow-teachers this collection of Exercises in English, for Criticism and Correction, it may not be amiss for me to say a few words in regard to its origin and its object.I had not been long engaged in high-school work before I discovered t...
Excerpt from Practical Exercises in English Composition: For Public and Private Schools and the Junior Classes in High SchoolsI have only to add that I shall be glad to receive any criticisms on it, or any suggestions in regard to its improvement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten ...
Excerpt from Thomsons Seasons: Autumn and WinterFor reasons which need not be mentioned, the work has been done more hurriedly than we should have liked, and hence some omissions or mistakes may have been overlooked. Partly for the same reasons the notes on Winter were written first, which will account for some of the references in the notes to Autumn.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books....
Excerpt from Exercises in False Syntax and Other Forms of Bad English: For the Use of Teachers, and Candidates Preparing for Departmental and Matriculation ExaminationsA few of the examples have been selected from text books and examination papers, a few more have been kindly contributed by friends or pupils, the rest have been gathered at intervals from a great variety of sources. As my object is to call attention to the mistakes, and not to ...
Excerpt from Byron's Prisoner of Chillon, and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: II. 73 to III. 51, And Twenty of Addison's Essays, (Selected From the Spectator, "), With Biographical and Critical Notices of the Writers, Notes, &C, The object of the introduction in each case is to enable students to understand clearly what manner of man the writer was, under what circumstances he wrote the work to be studied, and by what in¿uences he was likely to be...
Excerpt from Grammatical Analysis: Explained and Illustrated, With a Large Number of Carefully Selected Sentences and Passages for Practice, For the Use of Teachers, and of Candidates Preparing for Entrance, Public School Leaving, and Primary ExaminationsAs to the value of grammatical analysis as a subject of school study, and as to the best terms and modes to be adopted in it, there is room for an honest difference of opinion, but that it is ...
Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...
Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...
A History of English, first published in 1970, is a book for beginners in linguistic history. This title examines the changes in English language speech and writing over a period of almost 2000 years, whilst also exploring more recent changes within the author¿s living memory. This title aims to raise countless issues for enquiry and discussion, and its purpose is to serve as a springboard for language history learning rather than a textbook.
Excerpt from Thomsons Seasons: Autumn and Winter
In offering for school use this edition of the poetry prescribed for next year's examinations, we are not sanguine enough to expect that it will escape unfavourable criticism. We have followed our own judgment in regard to the nature and amount of the help to be furnished, and while we have neither hoped nor desired to relieve teachers from teaching, or students from studying the poems, we have...
Excerpt from Common Errors in Speaking and Writing and How to Avoid Them: A Series of Exercises, With Notes, Cautions and Suggestion, For the Use of Teachers, Pupils and Private Students
IN laying before my fellow-teachers this collection of Exercises in English, for Criticism and Correction, it may not be amiss for me to say a few words in regard to its origin and its object.
I had not been long engaged in high-school work before I discover...
Excerpt from Byron's Prisoner of Chillon, and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: II. 73 to III. 51, And Twenty of Addison's Essays, (Selected From the Spectator, "), With Biographical and Critical Notices of the Writers, Notes, &C,
As this is the third time that the editors have undertaken to provide a school edition of the English Literature for University and Departmental examinations, it is hardly necessary to do more than to say that this editi...
Excerpt from Grammatical Analysis: Explained and Illustrated, With a Large Number of Carefully Selected Sentences and Passages for Practice, For the Use of Teachers, and of Candidates Preparing for Entrance, Public School Leaving, and Primary Examinations
In preparing this little book I have been encouraged to hope that by its publication I may do something to improve the teaching of analysis in our schools, and at the same time to lighten th...
