PARSING SIMPLIFIED ; AN INTRODUCTION AND COMPANION TO ALL GRAMMARS: CONSISTING OF SHORT AND EASY RULES (WITH PARSING LESSONS TO EACH), WHEREBY VERY YOUNG STUDENTS MAY, IN A SHORT TIME, BE GRADUALLY LED THROUGH A KNOWLEDGE OF THE SEVERAL ELEMENTARY PARTS OF SPEECH TO A THOROUGH COMPREHENSION OF THE GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE MOST COMPLEX SENTENCES OF OUR ORDINARY AUTHORS, EITHER IN PROSE OR POETRY. BY THOMAS DARNELL. LONDON: GRIFFITH AND FARRAN, SUCCESSORS TO NEWBERY AND HARRIS, CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. TO TEACHERS. THIS little book may of course be used by one pupil at a time; but the interest felt in the lessons, and the advantage derived from them, will be considerably increased by their being gone through in a class, say of from three or four to six, eight, or more. All guessing must be immediately checked. Each pupil (taking a sentence in turn) should be invariably required to give his reason for what he says; and whenever a mistake is made all the others in the class should be encouraged to correct it at once. The teacher will thus be saved an immense amount of labour, the interest in the lessons will be kept up, all mistakes will be less likely to pass undetected, and the progress of the pupil will be greatly accelerated. Should the attention at any time flag much, or the lesson appear to be too difficult, it will be advisable to turn back a few pages and go over the ground again, as in all probability some one or other of the preceding lessons has not been fully understood. And, indeed, with all very young or dull pupils frequent repetition will be found desirable. 26, Theberton-street, N. Nov. 1864. The Author will be much obliged by any suggestions for the improvement of this work. |