DEFENDED AND IMPROVED, WITH DIRECTIONS FOR THEIR PROPER CONSTRUCTION ACCOMPANIED BY A COMPREHENSIVE OUTLINE OF CLASSIFICATION, AND A COMPLETE SCHEME OF EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. BY FREDERICK S. JEWELL, PH. D., AUTHOR OF "SCHOOL GOVERNMENT." A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION MONROE & GUTMAN LIBRARY Harvard University, PEIIII J4 Dept. of Education Library. In view of the established success of this method of teaching Grammar. and its illustration in these pages, it only remains for the publishers to name the books prepared by Prof. S. W. CLARK, on the Diagram Plan. Clark's English Grammar for Beginners. Introductory to the Normal Grammar. Beautifully illustrated. 16mo, 192 pp., half bound. First published in 1872, and designed to take the place of the author's older "First Lessons." Clark's Normal Grammar-Analytic and Synthetic. A Prac tical Grammar, in which Words, Phrases, and Sentences are classified according to their offices, and their various relations to each other illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams. 12mo, 334 pp., cloth. This work was published in 1870, and is designed to take the place of the author's older "Practical Grammar." A Key to Clark's Normal Grammar, containing Diagrams of all the Sentences for Analysis and Parsing found in the Grammar. Clark's Analysis of the English Language--with a Complete Classification of Sentences and Phrases, according to their Grammatic Structure. Designed as a Sequel to the Normal Grammar. 12mo, 182 pp., half bound. Clark's Grammatic Chart. Exhibiting the Analysis of Sentences, the Analysis of Phrases, the Classification and Modification of Words. Mounted. Welch's Analysis of the English Sentence. Designed for Ad vanced Classes in English Grammar. By A. S. Welch, A. M., late Principal of Michigan State Normal School, now President of Iowa Agricultural College. 12mo, 267 pp., half roan. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the J. D. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY TRANSFERTED FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE ADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION OCT 5 1921 PREFACE. THIS manual, called forth by the demands of the author's classes in the State Normal School, and Teachers' Institutes, and by the appeals of numerous correspondents for aid in the solution of difficult questions in grammatical analysis, has been prepared with sole reference to what has thus seemed to be an existing want among those pursuing that study, and making use of the excellent treatises of Prof. Clark. It presents, in an available form, some of the results of over twelve years' experience in teaching English Grammar on the basis of a logical, or, more exactly, a functional analysis, most of which have been successfully tested in the class-room, and have elicited the hearty approval of earnest and thoughtful students elsewhere. While primarily restricted to the consideration of the diagrams, it will be seen that its discussions and illustrations, and especially the outlines of classification, and the examples for practice in Part III., involve, to a marked extent, the system and the philosophy of grammatical analysis itself. This has been rendered unavoidable by the facts, that the proper construction of a diagram is always expository of the proper analysis, and that, in no way, short of a complete treatise on grammatical |