Excerpt from English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an Appendix, Containing Rules and Observations, for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write With Perspicuity and Accuracy Wrrn respect to the definitions and rules, it may not he improper more particularly to observe, that in select: ing and forming them, it has been the author's aim to render them as exact and comprehensive, and, at the same time, as intelligible to young minds, as the nature of the subject, and the dificulties attending it, would at! Mit. He presumes that they are also calculated to be readily committed to memory, and easily retained. For this purpose, he has been solicitous to select tar-tn! That are smooth and voluble to proportion the members of the sentences to one another; to avoid protractedperidds ahd' to give the whole definition Degreesor rule, as much harmony of expression as he could devise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.