[1] From the first, brief supplementary themes, especially reproductions, should be required. For bibliography of material, see Chapter XIII.
[2] Cf. President Stanley Hall’s Pedagogical Seminary, iv. i. 76.
[3]The Children, p. 103. (The Bodley Head. John Lane.)
[4] Some teachers will prefer to use composition-books.
[5] A part of these signs are from G. R. Carpenter’s admirable Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition.
[6] Elizabeth H. Spalding: The Problem of Elementary Composition. Boston, D. C. Heath & Co.
[7] Do not discard your old text-book in grammar or in “language.” Bring it to school and keep it at hand for ready reference. In it are rules for spelling; these, as well as other rules, you will be glad to review occasionally.
[8] The author is indebted for the idea of this exercise to Miss Catherine Aiken’s Methods of Mind-Training (Harper & Bros.). If it proves helpful it should be extended to the consonants d, f, g, l, m, n, p, r, s, t.
[9] The mark over the second syllable is called the diÆresis. It indicates that each vowel is to be pronounced separately.
[10] Such may be called logically co-ordinate, though grammatically dependent. The restrictive relative clause may be called the necessary relative clause; the non-restrictive may be called the unnecessary or additional relative clause.
[11]Comprehensively is Mr. Stevenson’s word—not the husband’s; it is inserted to show the way in which, probably with a vague gesture, the husband said all.
[12] Demean = behave. What word would be better here?
[14]Solecism is Greek in origin. The Athenian colonists of Soli in Asia Minor spoke Greek so badly that the Attic Greeks came to refer to an error in grammar (or in pronunciation) as soloikismÓs, whence our word.
[22] Sometimes a simple sentence is called periodic. This is when the natural order of subject and predicate is inverted. Thus: “Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” Indeed, the attributive position of the adjective is sometimes called periodic, because it delays the noun-idea. A long sentence is sometimes periodic up to a certain point, then loose; sometimes the opposite is true.
[23] Sentences that are in the main periodic may ordinarily be given this name.
[24] The longer passages to which the last two selections belong may be found in Genung’s Rhetorical Analysis.
[25] The phrase, “words that deserve distinction,” is Professor Barrett Wendell’s. See his English Composition, p. 103 (Scribner’s).
[26] See also Scott and Denney, Composition-Rhetoric, p. 72 ff. Teachers will be interested to compare an article by Miss Gertrude Buck, Educational Review, March, 1887. The matter is touched upon in the History of the English Paragraph, by the author of this book, p. 43 et al. (Univ. of Chicago Press).
[27] Is there not some ambiguity as to the grammatical structure here? Swallowed is logically the act performed by it, the fish, but grammatically it may be taken with ——? Remedy the fault.
[28]Good Manners, a pamphlet. (H. L. Hastings, Boston)
[29] For the idea of this exercise the author is indebted to Professors Scott and Denney, Composition-Rhetoric (Allyn and Bacon).
[30] See however do, does, in the Oxford English Dictionary.
[31] A. S. Hill: Foundations of Rhetoric, p. 110 (Harper’s).
[32]Round is more frequently used than around with verbs of motion.
[33] Probably three-fourths of these words are not in literary use to-day. Many are obsolete, many are colloquial, many are scientific or technical. Thousands of other scientific terms (names of genera and species) are not included in the 200,000 estimate.
[42] For particular passages, etc., see Professor A. S. Cook’s The Bible and English Prose Style (Ginn & Co.).
[43] Hundreds of others will be found in Hazlitt’s English Proverbs.
[44] For reference: Fallows, 100,000 Synonyms and Antonyms (Fleming H. Revell Co.); Roget, Thesaurus; Fernald, Synonyms, Antonyms, and Prepositions (Funk and Wagnalls).
