PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, I CHAMBER OF THE CONTROLLERS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Philadelphia, May 6th, 1862. At a meeting of the Controllers of Public Schools, held at their Chamber, on Tuesday, June 10th, 1845, the following Resolution was adopted :- Resolved, That HART'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR be introduced as a class book into the Grammar Schools of the District. PREFACE. GRAMMAR is like Arithmetic. It is based on scientific princies, and for advanced students it deals mainly with theoretical abstract discussions. But for beginners, it requires posie rules and definitions, and above all things, clear and copious amples. Examples are to the youthful student of Grammar at the sums are in Arithmetic. Without them, rules and finitions are apt to be a mere form of words. It is the amples and the practical exercises which give real life to the idy for young minds. In this new and revised edition of my Grammar, besides ailing myself of whatever new light the last seventeen years ve thrown upon the principles of the science, I have given uch greater prominence than before to the practical exercises. ne examples, both those for illustration and those for practice, e more numerous than in the original edition; and they are each case brought into immediate connection with the rule the definition which they are intended to illustrate. A ild of ordinary capacity can hardly go through these exercises ithout becoming thoroughly familiar with the principles which ney exemplify. In a Grammar intended mainly as a school-book, all parade f learning is eminently out of place. The matured fruits of tudy should appear, but not its mere foliage. What the eginner requires is definite practical results, not the methods y which the author has reached them. Yet Grammar is, of 11 subjects, the one on which it is neither safe nor modest to ogmatize. The man must be strangely ignorant of the whole 1. GRAMMAR is the science which treats of Lanage. 2. Grammar is divided into four parts; namely, RTHOGRAPHY, ETYMOLOGY, SYNTAX, and PRO ODY. 3. Orthography treats of LETTERS, Etymology of WORDS, Syntax of SENTENCES, and Prosody of 5. Orthography treats of LETTERS. NOTE. The treatment of the Points and of the other characers used in writing, embracing the rules of Punctuation, belongs |