ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE, DESIGNED FOR ADVANCED CLASSES IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. BY A. S. WELCH, A. M. PRINCIPAL OF MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. NATIONAL ACET A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO. CLARK'S DIAGRAM SYSTEM. In view of the established success of this method of teaching Grammar, and its illustration in these pages, it only remains for the publishers to name the books prepared by Prof. S. W. CLARK, on the Diagram Plan. Clark's English Grammar for Beginners. Introductory to the Normal Grammar. Beautifully illustrated. 16mo, pp., half bound. First published in 1872, and designed to take the place of the author's older "First Lessons." Clark's Normal Grammar-Analytic and Synthetic. A Prac tical Grammar, in which Words, Phrases, and Sentences are classified according to their offices, and their various relations to each other illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams. 12mo, 334 pp., cloth. This work was published in 1870, and is designed to take the place of the author's older "Practical Grammar." A Key to Clark's Normal Grammar, containing Diagrams of all the Sentences for Analysis and Parsing found in the Grammar. Clark's Analysis of the English Language--with a Complete Classification of Sentences and Phrases, according to their Grammatic Clark's Grammatic Chart. Exhibiting the Analysis of Sentences, the Analysis of Phrases, the Classification and Modification of Words. Mounted. Welch's Analysis of the English Sentence. Designed for Ad vanced Classes in English Grammar. By A. S. Welch, A. M., late Principal of Michigan State Normal School, now President of Iowa Agricultural College. 12mo, 267 pp., half roan. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by A. S. BARNES & BURR, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the w's A. PREFACE. THIS treatise, designed for advanced classes in English Grammar, is given to the public with the hope that it may contribute somewhat to the philosophical study of our language. A systematic analysis of the English Sentence, should hold a prominent rank, merely as an important means of mental development. In this respect no branch of study has been regarded so dry and sterile. A few years ago the attainments of most teachers in grammar were, to the last degree, superficial, and their instructions systematically wrong. The student of Kirkham supposed that his order of parsing exhausted the subject, and the disciple of Murray knew far more of rules than relations. English Grammar became distasteful and repulsive, because it furnished no genuine mental aliment. A hard nomenclature and a host of numbered rules were obstacles which very few fairly surmounted, and young pupils turned with disgust, from verbal recitations which gave exercise to the memory only. But we are happy in the fact that this state of things is gradually changing. Led by eminent grammarians, teachers are beginning to give less attention to old formulas, and more to the philosophy of language; and the day cannot be far off when a thorough knowledge of the structure of the English Sentence, can be gained from English grammars. If the following system shall aid, in any degree, so important a reform, its object will be accomplished. Its principal aim is to remedy the defects of the old grammars, by a more simple and just classification. Accordingly, we have changed the old nomenclature wherever it was inadequate or meaningless; yet no innovations have been made without the most serious and urgent reasons. In completing our task, we have been influenced neither by a love of novelty on the one hand, nor on the other, by a foolish attachment to time-honored errors. Whatever is new in our system, has received the unanimous sanction of numerous Teachers' Institutes, and the entire system has been thoroughly tested by teaching it to advanced classes in the State Normal School. It is earnestly hoped that every Teacher who peruses this work, will desire to find the truth, rather than a confirmation of his own pecuilar views, and that he will condemn no part without a careful examinatian of the whole. We gratefully acknowledge our obligations to Mr. Sill, of the State Normal School, for important aid in preparing the work for the press, and we give our thanks to numerous friends who have kindly expressed an interest in its publication. MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, } |