PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT AND COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY AND INSTRUCTOR IN OF THE "CENTURY DICTIONARY" WITH NEW ARRANGEMENT AND ADDITIONAL EXERCISES BY MRS. SARA E. H. LOCKWOOD AUTHOR OF "LESSONS IN ENGLISH" BOSTON, U.S.A. GINN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1901 Educ T759,018:77 MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY W. D. WHITNEY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRESSWORK BY GINN & Co., BOSTON, U.S.A. PREFACE. THIS adaptation of Whitney's "Essentials of English Grammar” is designed to furnish a simple and practical text-book for pupils who are not of sufficient maturity to use with advantage the original work. To this end, a new book has been made with. topical arrangement, abundant exercises of a more elementary style, and a generally simplified treatment. While the intention has been to embody all the excellent features of the "Essentials," it has sometimes seemed best to sacrifice inductive development of a subject to clearness and conciseness of expression, since it is presupposed that the classes for whom this book is intended have already had some elementary introduction to the study of English. It should be understood that, in using the book, the order of chapters is not, of necessity, to be strictly followed. For instance, the chapter on "Infinitives and Participles" may be studied, as a whole or in part, directly after the same subject, as treated in the chapter on "Verbs." Again, the analysis of sen |