HYDE'S SERIES IN ENGLISH. PRACTICAL LESSONS IN THE USE OF ENGLISH. Book I. For Primary and Intermediate Grades. Book II. For Grammar Grades. Covers such Technical Grammar as is essential to a correct use of English. BOOK II. WIth SupplemeNT. Contains 118 pages more of Technical Grammar than Book II. The Supplement is also bound separately. PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR. For Upper Grammar Grades, and other classes requiring a brief, practical, progressive course in English Grammar. DERIVATION OF WORDS. COMBINED EDITIONS. Book II. with Practical Grammar. Book II. with Supplement and Derivation of Words. In Preparation. A Composition for Upper Grammar and High School Grades. A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR FOR GRAMMAR SCHOOLS, UNGRADED SCHOOLS, IN HIGH SCHOOLS BY MARY F. HYDE AUTHOR OF "PRACTICAL LESSONS IN THE USE OF ENGLISH" BOSTON, U.S.A. D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS FEB-100 XGC 4989 P PREFACE. THIS HIS book is designed for upper grades in grammar schools, and for those classes in high schools, academies, and ungraded schools, that require a brief, practical, progressive course in English grammar. It is specially adapted to the needs of pupils who have completed the second book in the author's series entitled, "Practical Lessons in the Use of English," but it can be used independently of that work or of that series. The aim of the work is not to teach the greatest possible number of facts about the English language, but to give the pupil a mastery of the leading grammatical principles as a means toward the right understanding and correct use of English. The thorough training in essential principles which the pupil must receive from the use of this book will furnish him the best possible preparation for higher English studies or for the study of other languages. The work does not consist of a mere statement of definitions and rules. Every principle is presented through the study of examples, by which means the pupil's knowledge of grammatical facts is based upon his own observation. iii |