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Excerpt from Grammatical Analysis: Explained and Illustrated, With a Large Number of Carefully Selected Sentences and Passages for Practice; For the Use of Teachers, and of Candidates Preparing for Entrance, Public School Leaving, and Primary Examinations In preparing this little book I have been encouraged to hope that by its publication I may do something to improve the teaching of analysis in our schools, and at the same time to lighten the burdens of my fellow teachers, by providing a large and carefully selected and graded collection of sentences and passages for analysis, parsing, and general grammatical drill. How far the want of either has been felt, and how far I have succeeded in my aim, will remain to be seen. As to the value of grammatical analysis as a subject of school study, and as to the best terms and modes to be adopted in it, there is room for an honest difference of opinion; but that it is satisfactorily taught in the majority of our schools, or that there is anything like uniformity in the terms and methods used, I hardly think that any one that has had much experience in examining candidates, from Entrance to Senior Leaving, will venture to affirm. I do not know that I can claim much originality for my treatment of the subject. As a schoolboy my first notions of analysis were got from Bullions' Grammar. As a teacher I used in succession Robertson's, Morell's, Dalgleish's, and Mason's systems, besides consulting Abbott, Bain, and other authors; and finally, some years ago, I settled down to the methods and terms (with perhaps a very few slight changes) which I now recommend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.