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THE

GRAMMAR

OF

ENGLISH GRAMMARS,

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL;

THE WHOLE

METHODICALLY ARRANGED AND AMPLY ILLUSTRATED;

WITH

FORMS OF CORRECTING AND OF PARSING, IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION, EXAMPLESFOR PARSING, QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION, EXERCISES FOR WRITING, OBSERVATIONSFOR THE ADVANCED STUDENT, DECISIONS AND PROOFS FOR THE SETTLEMENT OFDISPUTED POINTS, OCCASIONAL STRICTURES AND DEFENCES, AN EXHIBITION OF THESEVERAL METHODS OF ANALYSIS,

AND

A KEY TO THE ORAL EXERCISES:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

FOUR APPENDIXES,

PERTAINING SEPARATELY TO THE FOUR PARTS OF GRAMMAR.

BY GOOLD BROWN,

AUTHOR OF THE INSTITUTES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR, THE FIRST LINES OF ENGLISHGRAMMAR, ETC.

"So let great authors have their due, that Time, who is the author ofauthors, be not deprived of his due, which is, farther and farther todiscover truth."—LORD BACON.

SIXTH EDITION—REVISED AND IMPROVED.

ENLARGED BY THE ADDITION OF A COPIOUS INDEX OF MATTERS.

BY SAMUEL U. BERRIAN, A. M.

PREFACE

The present performance is, so far as the end could be reached, thefulfillment of a design, formed about twenty-seven years ago, of one daypresenting to the world, if I might, something like a complete grammar ofthe English language;—not a mere work of criticism, nor yet a work tootame, indecisive, and uncritical; for, in books of either of these sorts,our libraries already abound;—not a mere philosophical investigation ofwhat is general or universal in grammar, nor yet a minute detail of whatforms only a part of our own philology; for either of these plans fallsvery far short of such a purpose;—not a mere grammatical compend,abstract, or compilation, sorting with other works already before thepublic; for, in the production of school grammars, the author had earlyperformed his part; and, of small treatises on this subject, we have longhad a superabundance rather than a lack.

After about fifteen years devoted chiefly to grammatical studies andexercises, during most of which time I had been alternately instructingyouth in four different languages, thinking it practicable to effect someimprovement upon the manuals which explain our own, I prepared andpublished, for the use of schools, a duodecimo volume of about threehundred pages; which, upon the presumption that its principles wereconformable to the best usage, and well established thereby, I entitled,"The Institutes of English Grammar." Of this work, which, it is believe

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