The Study of English (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Study of English One of the most comforting passages in a very comforting book reads: "Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain." And during the past six years, while gathering together the material that is to be found within these covers, the writer has tried hard to keep the idea brought out in this quotation constantly before him. He has tried to make the study of English seem simple and understandable. The book does not pretend to be an elaborate treatise on English composition. The author has tried to make it merely an introduction to the study of English, particularly suitable for the early years of high school. As the book, however, covers the entire field of English composition, even though it be in an elementary form, it may serve as the only text-book in advanced classes that are doing intensive work, or in night-schools, where mature students are anxious to cover the ground as rapidly as possible. It is divided into thirty chapters, a chapter for each school week, and each chapter is subdivided into five lessons for the first twenty, and four for the last ten chapters, a lesson for each meeting of the class. The lessons are, as a general thing, so short that, in connection with each one, the students could be expected to do some outside reading. 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.