Longmans School Grammar (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Longmans School Grammar

The more noticeable introductions of new material are, in Part II, to be found in the treatment of the Pronoun, the three Verbals, and the Conjunction while an entire chapter has been added dealing with the Preposition, an undeniably important part of speech in English. In Part III the treat ment of the Elements has been considerably enlarged and systematized, an abbreviated form of Analysis has been pro vided, and a mode of analytic diagramming has been intro duced which is believed to be a suggestive aid to the pupil in his mastery of sentence-construction - a study that ought to be as agreeable as it is important. Also, as an Appendix to Part III there has been provided a summary of the Rules of English Syntax with copious practical exercises for cor rection.

Only a few of the more important points of what is in cluded under the third head, revision of the text, can be mentioned here. Nearly all the definitions of the Parts of Speech have been recast the distinction between Verb and Predicate has been made clear and kept clear Interrogatives (pronouns, Adverbs and Adjectives) have been more carefully treated; the awkward term Verb of Incomplete Predica tion has been abandoned; the complicated Tense system of the original book has been replaced by a much simpler though not less accurate one while changes believed to be valuable have been made in the treatment of the Subjunctive Mood. The exercises have been improved and enlarged.

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