Now Ready. Crown 8vo. Price 1s. 6d. OUTLINE OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN FIVE PARTS I.—NOUNS, ADJECTIVES, PRONOUNS, ADVERBS, PREPOSITIONS, AND CONJUNCTIONS II.-VERBS AND THEIR INFLECTIONS III-PARSING AND SYNTAX IV.-ANALYSIS AND CONVERSION OF SENTENCES: SEQUENCE OF TENSES V.-ANALYSIS AND DERIVATION OF WORDS: SOUNDS AND SPELLINGS. с BY J. C. NESFIELD, M.A., OxON AUTHOR OF "ENGLISH GRAMMAR PAST AND PRESENT,' ""HISTORICAL London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY PART I.-NOUNS, ADJECTIVES, PRONOUNS, ADVERBS, PREPOSITIONS, AND CONJUNCTIONS. CHAPTER 1. How to tell the Parts of Speech; 2. Forms and Kinds of Nouns (1) Number, (2) Gender, (3) Case, (4) Kinds of Nouns ; 3. Forms and Kinds of Adjectives—(1) Kinds of Adjectives, (2) Comparison of Adjectives; 4. Forms and Kinds of Pronouns-(1) Personal Pronouns, (2) Demonstrative Pronouns, (3) Relative or Conjunctive Pronouns, (4) Interrogative Pronouns; 5. Forms and Kinds of Adverbs(1) Kinds of Adverbs, (2) Comparison of Adverbs, (3) Forms of Adverbs; 6. Preposition; 7. Conjunctions. Exercises 1-8. PART II.-VERBS AND THEIR INFLECTIONS. CHAPTER 8. The Kinds of Verbs; 9. Parts of a Finite Verb; 10. Parts of a Verb not Finite; 11. Strong and Weak Verbs; 12. Auxiliary Verbs; 13. Defective and Impersonal verbs. Exercises 9-14. PART III.—PARSING AND SYNTAX. Chapter 14. The Parsing of Nouns; 15. The Parsing of Pronouns ; 16. Cases of Nouns and Pronouns; 17. Verb and Object; 18. The Parsing of Adjectives; 19. Finite Verb and subject; 20. The Parsing of Infinitives; 21. The Parsing of Participles; 22. The Parsing of Gerunds and Verbal Nouns; 23. The Parsing of Adverbs, Prepositions, and Conjunctions. Oxford and Cambridge Preliminary Examinations, 1896-1899. Central Welsh Board Junior Certificate Examinations, 1898, 1899. Preceptors' Third - Class Examinations, 1897, 1898. Exercises 15-24. PART IV.-ANALYSIS AND CONVERSION OF SENTENCES: SEQUENCE OF TENSES. CHAPTER 24. Sentences Simple, Compound, and Complex; 25. The Method of Analysis; 26. Compound Sentences; 27. Complex and Mixed Sentences; 28. Conversion of Sentences-(1) From Simple to Compound, (2) From Compound to Simple, (3) From Simple to Complex, (4) From Complex to Simple, (5) From Compound to Complex, (6) From Complex to Compound; 29. Sequence of Tenses: Direct and Indirect Speech. Exercises 25-39. SOUNDS AND SPELLINGS. CHAPTER 30. Compound Words; 31. Derivatives (1) Suffixes: Teutonic, Romanic, Greek, (2) Prefixes: Teutonic, Romanic, Greek; 32. Sounds, Symbols, and Spellings-(1) Letters, Accents, Syllables, (2) Vowels: Sounds, Symbols, and Spellings, (3) Consonants: Sounds; Symbols, and Spellings; 33. Peculiar Plurals: Origin and Uses; 34. Gender of Nouns: Origin and History; 35. Origin and Use of Certain Endings; 36. Origin and History of Certain Words. Exercises 40-42 (selected from Oxford, Cambridge, and College of Preceptors). PRESS OPINIONS. BOOKSELLER. "The author's previous works on English Grammar have gained the favourable opinion of English teachers, and the short outline of the subject here provided, which naturally proceeds along the same lines, is equally deserving of commendation. The book is particularly designed for pupils in secondary schools, who will find it excellently adapted to meet their special needs.' HEAD TEACHER.-"We have seen many more pretentious volumes than this which are much less complete, and far less clear. . . There is no doubt that a thorough mastery of the twenty pages on parsing and syntax would give the student a more comprehensive grasp of this section of the science of words than is ordinarily possessed. The other chapters are equally good." SCHOOLMASTER-"We have examined this book with some care and can speak well of it. A pupil who has intelligently worked through the five parts of the book will have made very considerable progress in this study. Mr. Nesfield is evidently master of his subject." EDUCATIONAL NEWS.-" Any new grammar by Mr. Nesfield is welcome. His text-books are 'boons and blessings' to teachers. The present work is an outline of English grammar in five parts, and deals with the parts of speech, parsing, syntax, analysis, sequence of tenses, and derivation of words. It has copious and graded exercises throughout. Although ostensibly an outline, it contains matter sufficient for the requirements of scholars entering for the Leaving Certificate and for Pupil Teachers. It is easily the best work of its kind, and we give it our heartiest recom. mendation." GIRLS AND INFANTS MISTRESS.-" The work promises to do for the pupil in the ordinary school what the author's larger treatise has done for the student in higher schools and colleges, and that is saying as much as can be said for any educational treatise. Its treatment is on the same scientific lines; its discipline is, therefore, of the same order. Most educationists regret the intellectually-useless simplification attempted of recent years in the subject of our mother tongue. Whatever may have been its result, it cannot be said to have endowed the pupil with power. Here the agent is restored to its proper function, and the process of restoration is effected in a style as pleasant and satisfactory as can ever hope to be attained." CHAP. XXV THE METHOD OF ANALYSIS 97 26 Exercise 27. Pick out the Adverb-clause or clauses in the following. Show what word or phrase is qualified by every such clause, and what Adverbial relation is denoted thereby :-- 1. He will succeed, because he has worked hard. 2. Men engage in some work, that they may earn a living. 3. He threatened to beat him, unless he confessed. 4. He was always honest, although he was poor. 5. This is not true, so far as I can tell. 6. He likes you as much as I do. 7. He tried for a long time before he succeeded. 8. Let us go to bed, as it is now late. 9. He walked with care, lest he should stumble. 10. I agree to this, provided you sign your name. 11. Though he punish me, yet will I trust in him. 12. He returned home, after he had finished the work. 13. Prove a friend, before you trust him. 14. When the cat's away, the mice play. 15. He persevered so steadily, that he succeeded at last. 16. I will let off this man, who has been well punished already. 17. He sees very well, considering that he is sixty years of age. 18. I gave him a prize, that he might work harder next year. 19. They deserted their former associate, who had become poor and unfortunate. 20. As the tree falls, so will it lie. 21. Ever since we left the house, it has not ceased raining. 22. I should be glad to lend you that money, if I had as much in my own pocket. 23. Murder, though it have no tongue, will yet speak. 24. Unless you leave the house at once, I will send for a policeman. 25. A jackal, while prowling about the suburbs of a town, slipped into an indigo tank; and not being able to get out he laid himself down, so that he might be taken for dead. 26. Ambassadors were sent from Sparta, who should sue for peace. CHAPTER XXV.—THE METHOD OF ANALYSIS. 119. Form of Analysis.—The following form will be sufficient for the purposes of this chapter. The fourth example is a Complex sentence; the other three are Simple sentences:— A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The second master of the school has been teaching my sons Euclid since Thursday last. Whom the gods love die young. |