English Grammar-Improved Stereotype Edition. ABRIDGMENT OF. MURRAY'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR, WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING EXERCISES IN ORTHOGRAPHY, IN PARSING, IN SYNTAX, DESIGNED FOR THE YOUNGER CLASSES OF LEARNERS. BY LINDLEY MURRAY. TO WHICH QUESTIONS ARE ADDED-PUNCTUATION, AND THE NOTES UNDER LARGE GRAMMAR:-BEING HIS OWN ABRIDGMENT ENTIRE; REVISED, PREPARED, AND ADAPTED TO THE USE OF THE PUBLISHED BY ROBERT S. DAVIS CUSHING & SONS, BALTIMORE. 1836. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT : District Clerk's Office. Be it remembered, that on the twenty-fourth day of March, A. D 1824, in the forty-eighth year of the independence of the United States of America, Israel Alger, Jun., Ensign Lincoln, & Thomas Edmands, Jun., of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "Alger's Murray. English Grammar-Improved Stereotype Edition. Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar, with an Appendix, containing Exercises in Orthography, in Parsing, in Syntax, and in Punctuation. Designed for the younger classes of learners. By LINDLEY MURRAY. To which Questions are added-Punctuation and the Notes under rules in Syntax, supplied from the author's large Grammar :-being his own abridgment entire; revised, prepared, and adapted to the use of the English Exercises.' By ISRAEL ALGER, Jun. A. M." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;" and also to an Act entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps. charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical, and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, {Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. Extract from the Records of the School Committee of Boston. "At a meeting of the School Committee, held at the Mayor and Aldermen's Rooms, May 5th, 1824, it was Voted, That Alger's Abridgment of Murray's Grammar, Boston Stereotyped Edition, be ntroduced into the publick Reading and Grammar Schools of this alty. John Pierpont, Secretary." Boston, 15th June, 1824. •2 THE Compiler of "English Grammar, adapted to the different Classes of Learners," having been frequently solicited to publish an Abridgment of that work, for the use of children commencing their grammatical studies, he hopes that the epitome which he now offers to the publick, will be found useful and satisfactory. . His chief view in presenting the book in this form, is, to preserve the larger work from being torn and defaced by the younger scholars, in their first study of the general outline which it prescribes; and, consequently, to render their application to each part both new and inviting. If a small volume is better adapted to the taste of children than a large one; and more readily engages their attention, from the apparent shortness of the road they have to travel, the Abridgment will thence derive additional recommendations. To give these arguments the greatest weight, the book is neatly bound, and printed with a fair letter, and on good paper. A SLIGHT inspection of the manner in which the work is executed, will show that it is not intended to supply the place, or supersede the use, of the original Grammar. If, however, the teachers of such children as can devote but a small part of their time to this study, should think proper to make use of it, they will not, it is imagined, find it more defective than abridgments commonly are. It exhibits a general scheme of the subjects of |