A PRACTICAL GRAMMAR : IN WHICH WORDS, PHRASES, AND SENTENCES ARE CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THEIR OFFICES. AND THEIR VARIOUS RELATIONS TO ONE ANOTHER. ILLUSTRATED BY A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF DIAGRAMS. "Speech is the body of thought." BY S. W. CLARK, A. M., PRINCIPAL OF CORTLAND ACADEMY. AUTHOR OF ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE," ETYMOLOGICAL CHART." A. S. BARNES & BURR, 51 & 53 JOHN STREET. BOLD BY BOOKSELLERS, GENERALLY, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. 1860. Educt 758, 60.290 Science of the English Language. CLARK'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND ANALYSIS. Clark's First Lessons in English Grammar. Designed for Beginners, and Introductory to the Practical Grammar. By S. W. CLARK, A.M., Principal of Cortland Academy. 18mo, half bound. Price 30 cents. Clark's New English Grammar. A Practical Grammar,· in which Words, Phrases, and Sentences are Classified according to their Offices and Relations to each other. Illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams. 12mo, cloth. Price 60 cents. A Key to Clark's Grammar, containing Diagrams of all the Sentences for Analysis and Parsing found in the Grammar, is published by A. S. BARNES & BURR. Clark's Analysis of the English Language. With a Complete Classification of Sentences and Phrases, according to their Grammatical Structure. Designed as an Introduction to the study of English Grammar. 12mo, half bound. Price 40 cents. Clark's Etymological Chart. Exhibiting the Analysis of Sentences, the Analysis of Phrases, and Classification and Modification of Words. Mounted. Price $2 00. The Chart presents at one view the entire Etymology of the English language. It is useful in reviews and etymological parsing. The whole class may follow the reciting pupil, while the attention of all is directed to the same thing at the same time, as the Chart hangs before them. ENTERED, ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1855, IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ESTATE OF PREFACE. THE GRAMMAR of a Language, Quintilian has justly remarked, is like the foundation of a building; the most important part, although out of sight, and not always properly valued by those most interested in its condition. In the opinion of many modern educators there is a tendency, on the part of all, to neglect this important branch of English Education-not so much from a conviction that the science is not important, as that there is a radical defect in the common method of presenting it to the attention of the Scholar. This was the sentiment of the Author when, some ten years since, he was called to the supervision of a Literary Institution, in which was established a department for the education of Teachers. Accordingly, recourse was had to oral instruction; and, for the convenience of Teachers, a manuscript Grammar was prepared, which embodied the principles of the science and the Author's mode of presenting it. These principles and this method have been properly tested by numerous and advanced classes during the seven years last past. The manuscript has in the mean time, from continued additions, unexpectedly become a book. It has received the favorable notice of Teachers, and its publication has been, by Teachers, repeatedly solicited. To these solicitations the Author is constrained to yield, and in the hope and belief that the work will "add to the stock of human knowledge," or at least tend to that result, by giving an increased interest to the study of the English language, it is, with diffidence, submitted to the public. In revising the work for publication, an effort has been made to render it simple in style, comprehensive in matter-adapted to the capacities of the younger pupil, and to the wants of the more advanced scholar. It is confidently believed that the METHOD of teaching Grammar herein suggested, is the true method. The method adopted by most text-books may be well suited to the wants of foreigners in first learning our language. They need first to learn our Alphabet---the power and sounds, and the proper combinations of Letters--the definitions of words and their classification according to definitious |