Excerpt from Lessons in Language and Grammar, Vol. 1 The series, of which this is the first book, has been prepared in the belief that the best training in the use of language is afforded by a coordination of language lessons and grammar. It is a mistake to require pupils to spend a few years upon language lessons, and then a few years upon grammar. The two subjects should be pursued as one study, and those parts that help each other most should be brought together every week in lessons and exercises. To study language as an art without knowing at the same time something of grammar as a science, is to follow a process purely empirical, and to deprive the teacher of a vocabulary with which to communicate his suggestions to the pupil. The study of grammar with out practice in expression is, for the young, dry and unfruitful. Its results at best are those of logic and not of rhetoric. 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.