PREFACE

INTRODUCTION HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL CHAPTER I. OF THE SCIENCE OF GRAMMAR.

CHAPTER II. OF GRAMMATICAL AUTHORSHIP.

CHAPTER III. OF GRAMMATICAL SUCCESS AND FAME.

CHAPTER IX. OF THE BEST METHOD OF TEACHING GRAMMAR.

CHAPTER II. OF SYLLABLES.

CHAPTER III. OF WORDS.

CHAPTER VI. FOR WRITING. EXERCISES IN ORTHOGRAPHY.

PART II. ETYMOLOGY.

CHAPTER I. PARTS OF SPEECH.

CHAPTER II. ARTICLES.

CHAPTER VI. VERBS.

CHAPTER VIII. ADVERBS.

CHAPTER IX. CONJUNCTIONS.

CHAPTER X. PREPOSITIONS.

CHAPTER XI INTERJECTIONS.

CHAPTER XII. QUESTIONS. ORDER OF REHEARSAL, AND METHOD OF EXAMINATION. PART SECOND, ETYMOLOGY.

CHAPTER XIII. FOR WRITING. EXERCISES IN ETYMOLOGY.

PART III. SYNTAX.

CHAPTER IX. CONJUNCTIONS. (2)

CHAPTER X. PREPOSITIONS. (2)

CHAPTER XI INTERJECTIONS. (2)

CHAPTER XII. GENERAL REVIEW.

CHAPTER XV. FOR WRITING. EXERCISES IN SYNTAX.

PART IV. PROSODY.

CHAPTER I PUNCTUATION.

CHAPTER III. FIGURES.

APPENDIX III TO PART THIRD, OR SYNTAX. OF THE QUALITIES OF STYLE.

APPENDIX IV. TO PART FOURTH, OR PROSODY. OF POETIC DICTION.

Title: The Grammar of English Grammars

Author: Goold Brown

Language: English

Produced by Karl Hagen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Transcriber's Notes: Despite the severity with which the author of this work treats those who depart from his standard of correctness, the source text does contain a small number of typographical errors. Missing punctuation has been supplied silently, but all other errors have been left uncorrected. To let the reader distinguish such problems from any inadvertent transcription errors that remain, I have inserted notes to flag items that appear errors by Brown's own standard. Spellings that are simply different from current practice, e.g., 'Shakspeare' are not noted. Special characters: vowels with macrons are rendered with an equals sign (=) before the vowel. Vowels with breve marks are rendered with tildes (~) before the vowels.—KTH.

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, EXAMPLES FOR PARSING, QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION, EXERCISES FOR WRITING, OBSERVATIONS FOR THE ADVANCED STUDENT, DECISIONS AND PROOFS FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTED POINTS, OCCASIONAL STRICTURES AND DEFENCES, AN EXHIBITION OF THE SEVERAL 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 ENGLISH GRAMMAR, ETC.

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

SIXTH EDITION—REVISED AND IMPROVED.

ENLARGED BY THE ADDITION OF A COPIOUS INDEX OF MATTERS.

BY SAMUEL U. BERRIAN, A. M.