The favor accorded to "An Advanced English Grammar "
has led the authors, in response to many requests from expe-
rienced teachers, to prepare this brief manual - of similar
grade for use in those courses of study which require a
very concise textbook.
The plan will appear from the Table of Contents. Part One,
which may serve either as an introduction or as a preliminary
review, gives a rapid survey of the Parts of Speech in the
Sentence and an explanation of their substitutes the Phrase
and the Clause. Part Two deals systematically with Inflec-
tion and Syntax, and closes with chapters on Clauses as
Parts of Speech and the Meanings of Subordinate Clauses
(as expressing time, place, cause, concession, purpose, result,
condition, comparison, indirect discourse, and indirect ques-
tion). Particular attention is paid to several matters that
often give trouble to the student- such as shall and will,
conditional sentences, and indirectness in assertions and ques-
tions. Part Three treats of Analysis. An Appendix contains
Lists of Verbs and Tables of Conjugation.
The Exercises (pp. 157-208) follow the text in the same
order of treatment, and references at the head of each, as well
as parallel references in the Table of Contents, make it easy
for the teacher to utilize them in connection with the topics
which they illustrate. This arrangement obviates the necessity
of interrupting the exposition of grammatical principles at
every turn, and thus lends to pp. 1-156 a continuity otherwise
unattainable. The passages selected for parsing, analysis, etc.,