Grammar of the English Sentence and Introduction to Composition. English Grammar for Beginners. English Grammar for the Common School. Outlines in Grammar and Discussions of the Infinite Analysis of the English Sentence with Diagrams. Outlines in Psychology. COPYRIGHT, 1891, 1896, BY JONATHAN RIGDON. Norwood Press: J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith. Boston, Mass., U.S.A. LIBRARY Leland Stanford, Jr. UNIVERSITY But the chief importance of Grammar is not as a means to the use of language; it is to be prized most as a discipline for the mind. The educational value of any study is measured by the power it gives the student to form that kind of judgments he will be oftenest called upon to form in the actual business of life. Of all the studies below the college course, Grammar stands pre-eminently first in respect to educational value. Indeed, it is surpassed by nothing in the college course; and if any study can claim to be its equal in this particular, that study is Political Economy, or Social Science in general. In each of these studies the reasoning is not simple and definitely exact, as it is in mathematics, but is indefinite and complex, demanding just such grasp of facts, and such discrimination in weighing probabilities, as we are called upon to use scores of times every day, in the ordinary affairs of life. In accordance with these thoughts this book has been prepared. The author has not failed to take advantage of all the suggestions contained in other books; but for the most part, this one is an exposition, by the scientific or inductive method, of the sentence, as we find it in the best English of to-day. Every teacher knows the value of reviews; and reviews are nowhere needed more than in Grammar. Each part of speech has therefore been followed by a general summing-up, or outline, for review. Teachers and advanced students desiring a more extended knowledge of technical Grammar will find much additional matter in the "GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE AND INTRODUCTION TO COMPOSITION"; for those who care for a more elementary book, the author has written his "ENGLISH GRAMMAR FOR BEGINNERS." JONATHAN RIGDON. |