CONTENTS
Maria Montessori
PART I
GRAMMAR
Translator's Note
vii
CHAPTER
PAGE
I.
The Transition from the Mechanical to the Intellectual Development of Language
3
II.
Word Study
12
Suffixes and Prefixes
13
Suffixes
13
Prefixes
17
Compound Words
18
Word-Families
20
III.
Article and Noun
22
Singular and Plural
25
Masculine and Feminine
27
Singular and Plural in English
33
IV.
Lessons—Commands
39
Nouns
40
Commands on Nouns
48
V.
Adjectives
51
Analyses
51
Descriptive Adjectives
51
Permutations
55
Inflection of Adjectives
56
Logical and Grammatical Agreement of Nouns and Adjectives
59
Descriptive Adjectives
61
Adjectives of Quantity
63
Ordinals
64
Demonstrative Adjectives
64
Possessive Adjectives
65
Comparison of Adjectives
65
VI.
Verbs
66
Analyses
66
Permutations
68
Lessons and Commands on the Verb
69
Lessons with Experiments
74
VII.
Prepositions
77
Analyses
77
Permutations
80
Lessons and Commands on Prepositions
81
VIII.
386
Imparisyllabic lines
388
The cÆsura
391
Metrical analyses
392
Translator's note on English metrics
395
Material for nomenclature
404
Appendix I
409
Appendix II
423
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