Murray's Exercises-Improved Stereotype Edition. MURRAY'S ENGLISH EXERCISES, CONSISTING OF EXERCISES IN PARSING; INSTANCES OF FALSE ORTHOGRAPHY; AND ACCURATE WRITING. With which the corresponding Notes, Rules, and Observations REVISED, PREPARED, AND PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO THE USE OF SCHOOLS: BEING A COUNTERPART TO THE ENGLISH TEACHER. BY ISRAEL ALGER, JUN., A. M. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY ROBERT S. DAVIS. PHILADELPHIA: THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT AND COMPANY. 1850. Gift of Sam & A. Green, M. D. of Boston. H. U. 1857.) ALGER'S MURRAY'S GRAMMAR. Murray's English Grammar, with an Appendix containing exercises in Orthography, in Parsing, in Syntax, and in Punctuation; designed for the younger classes of learners. By Lindley Murray. To which Questions are added, Punctuation, and the notes under Rules in Syntax copiously supplied from the author's large Grammar, being his own abridgement entire. Revised, prepared, and adapted to the use of the "English Exercises," by Israel Alger, Jr., A. M. Improved stereotype edition. The School Committee of Boston passed a vote, authorizing the use of this work in all the public Reading and Grammar Schools of the City, which is considered a sufficient Recommendation of the work. The Grammar and Exercises have also been adopted in many of the best Schools, in various sections of the United States. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1838, By ROBERT S. DAVIS, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. HARVARD LIBRARY INTRODUCTION. THE principles of knowledge become most intelligible to young persons, when they are explained and inculcated by practical illustration and direction. This mode of teaching is attended with so many advantages, that it can scarcely be too much recommended, or pursued. Instruction which is enlivened by pertinent examples, and in which the pupil is exercised in reducing the rules prescribed to practice, has a more striking effect on the mind, and is better adapted to fix the attention, and sharpen the understanding, than that which is divested of these aids, and confined to bare positions and precepts; in which it too frequently happens, that the learner has no further concern, than to read and repeat them. The time and care employed in practical application, give occasion to survey the subject minutely and in different points of view; by which it becomes more known and familiar, and produces stronger and more durable impressions. THESE observations are peculiarly applicable to the study of grammar, and the method of teaching it. The rules require frequent explanation; and, besides direct elucidation, they admit of examples erroneously constructed, for exercising the student's sagacity and judgment. To rectify these, attention and reflection are requisite; and the knowledge of the rule necessarily results from the study and correction of the sentence. But these are not all the advantages which arise from Grammatical Exercises. By discovering their own abilities to detect and amend errours, and their consequent improvement, the scholars become pleased with their studies, and are animated to proceed, and surmount the obstacles which occur in their progress. The instructer too is relieved and encouraged in his labours. By discerning exactly the powers and improvement of his pupils, he perceives the proper season for advancing them; and by observing the points in which they are deficient, he knows precisely where to apply his directions and explanations. THESE Considerations have induced the Compiler to collect and arrange a variety of erroneous examples, adapted to the different rules and instructions of English Grammar, and to the principles of perspicuous and accurate writing. It has not indeed |