METHOD OF ANALYSIS WITH PASSAGES FROM ENGLISH BY FRANCES E. BEVAN Classical Tripos, Cambridge; Joint-Headmistress of the BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C. GLASGOW DUBLIN BOMBAY PREFACE This collection of passages from English Literature for Grammatical Analysis is the material of many years' work in teaching English to Upper and Middle Forms in Secondary Schools. The book is not intended for Junior Forms; but as the examples in each exercise are arranged more or less in order of difficulty, the teacher will see that a first year's course in the analysis of complex sentences might be made by taking the first twenty to thirty examples in each section, and leaving the more difficult ones for a second and third year. I have purposely departed from the usual order and placed the Noun Clause last, because in my experience this type of clause presents most difficulty to the learner. It is, however, open to anyone who may use this book to reverse my order. Part I is not meant to take the place of an English Grammar, but merely for the recapitulation of the main principles of sentence construction and 5 |
