Longmans' English Grammar

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Preface To The Revised Edition

In this edition, aside from a reclassification of adjectives^ a more complete treatment of several topics, and the addition of some exercises, the principal changes have been along the line of making the terminology used in the book agree (wherever any modification was necessary) with that which has been officially adopted for the schools of the City of New York. As this has involved no alteration of the plan or method of the book, and as the revised terminology is simple and in general acceptation, there seems to be no reason why this book should not meet satisfactorily, as heretofore, the needs of American schools at large, as well as those of New York.

In making these changes of nomenclature I have also had in view the recommendations of the Report of the Committee on Grammatical Nomenclature of the National Educational Association (July, 1913).

In this edition, the sentences in the several exercises have been numbered, for the convenience of teachers.

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New York, August, 1915.

Part I Parts Of Speech Pagb

NOUNS . K .. . 1 iNFINmVBS ... 17

Words Used Both As

Nouns AND As Verbs . 21

Subject and Predicate 22

Naming the Parts op Speech in Sentences

Participles ADVERBS . .

PREPOSITIONS CONJUNCTIONS INTERJECTIONS REVIEW . .

PAGB 40

42 44 50 55 60 61

PART II CLASSIFICATION AND INFLECTION Replexive and Emphatic

Proper Nouns

. 66

Pronouns

. 109

CoBiMON Nouns

. 67

B,ELATivE Pronouns

. 112

CoLLEcnvB Nouns .

. 67

Interrogativb Pro-

Abstract Nouns

. 68 nouns ....

. 120

. 71

Adjectivb Pronouns

Gender .

. 76

Review op Pronouns

. 124

Nominative Case .

. 81

OsjEcnvE Case

. 87

Kinds ....

. 126

Possessive Case

Articles ....

. 130

Place of Subject a m>

Comparison

Object .

. 98

Review op Adjectives .

. 135

Review op Nouns .

. 99

PRONOUNS

Active Voice .

. 138

. 102

Passive Voice .

. 138

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CONTENTS

CLASSIFICATION AND INFLECTION— continued

PAGB

VEBBS--coTUinued

TRANSirrvE Verbs . . 139

iNTRANsmvE Verbs . 140

CopuLATTVE Verbs . . 142

Indicative Mood . 147

Verbals .... 156

Regular and Irregular

Person and Number 184

Conjugation . . 185

ShaUemdWiU . 198

May and Can 199

Agreement of Verbs 202

Review of Verbs , . 204

ADVERBS Kinds ....

CoNjuNcnvB Adverbs .

Comparison

PREPOSITIONS . .

CONJUNCTIONS . .

SUGGESTIONS FOR MIS- CELLANEOUS PARS- ING

Words "Understood" .

Order ....

Words and Phrases

Doubled .

Words used as Different Parts of Speech What Ae .

PAQB

209 212 216

Like Bvi .

Thai

Miscellaneous Sentences FOR Parsing 232

223 225

227 228 229 230 231

Part III Analysis Of Sentences Elements ... 236

SIMPLE SENTENCES

The Subject Substantive .... 236

The Predicate Base . 238

Subject containing Enlargements . 240

Predicate containing Enlargements . 243

Object with Enlargements .... 246

Predicate Complement WITH Enlargements . 247

Compound Elements 250

CONTENTO

IX

ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES— coniinwed

PAGB

Analysis of Shiplb Sentences . 251

iNTERROOATrVB SEN- TENCES 252

Imperative Sentences 253 Long Simple Sentences 253

MlBCELLANBOnS SiMPLB

Sentences 256

Noun Clauses .

Adjective Clauses .

Adverbial Clauses .

Classification of Elements M iscellaneous Complex

Sentences .

PAGB

259 265 269

COMPOUND S E N -

TENCES ... 282 Review of Analysis . 285

SUPPLEMENT TO PART III

I. Analysis by Diagrams 289

n. Miscellaneous Sentences FOR Analysis AND Diagramming . 295

III. Rules of Syntax 299

Exercises on Rules of Syntax and on Correctness IN Inflections .... 302

APPENDIX Rules for Spelling, Capitalization and Punctuation .

I. On some Points of Grammar 317

II. On the Teaching of Grammar 323

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The attention of those who use this book as a basis for class work is called to the fact that the sizes of type employed are intended to indicate, to some extent, the relative importance of the matters treated. The type will therefore guide those who wish to omit portions of the book, in order to pursue only a shorter course. The plan is explained in Note 21, page 323. It will suffice here to point out that paragraphs printed in the smaller type, and especially those preceded by an asterisk, may, at the teacher's discretion, be omitted. The essentials of the subject are contained in tSie paragraphs printed in large t3rpe, and these will be found to provide a continuous exposition of English grammar.

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