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THE

PROGRESSIVE ENGLISH GRAMMAR,

WITH EXERCISES.

BY

WALTER SCOTT DALGLEISH, M.A. EDIN.,

VICE-PRINCIPAL OF DREGhorn college;

AUTHOR OF "ENGLISH COMPOSITION IN Prose and veRSE;"
"GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS," ETO.

BODI

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EDINBURGH:

OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT.

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.

1866.

PRICE TWO SHILLINGS.

302.9.19.

In Preparation,

A KEY TO THE EXERCISES IN THE PROGRESSIVE

ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

Third Edition, price 9d.,

GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS,

By W. SCOTT DALGLEISH, M.A., Vice-Principal of Dreghorn College; Author of "English Composition in Prose and Verse."

Dr Schmitz, Head Master of the International College, London.-"I scarcely know any work which, in so small a compass, contains so complete and lucid an exposition of the subject it treats of."

A KEY to the Work, price 2s.

By the same Author, Fourth Edition, 2s. 6d.,

ENGLISH COMPOSITION IN PROSE AND VERSE,

BASED ON GRAMMATICAL SYNTHESIS.

"The treatise is evidently, for the purposes of elementary instruction, at once the most practical and the most scientific exposition that we have yet had."-The late Professor Craik.

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PREFACE.

THIS work is designed to lead pupils progressively from the simplest elements of English Grammar to the most advanced stage of the subject; and to give them in outline so complete a view of the grammar of their mother tongue, that it shall not be necessary for them to refer to other works unless when it is intended to make the Language the subject of minute and special study.

In plan, the work is practical rather than strictly scientific: in the selection and arrangement of material, the author has endeavoured to make the book a good and useful one for the purposes of teaching, rather than a formal exposition of the science of Grammar.

The treatment of the subject is simple throughout, but especially in the earlier portions. The Definitions are brief, and will be easily remembered. Simplicity, however, has in no

case been gained by sacrificing that strict accuracy upon which, particularly in the case of beginners, sound grammatical knowledge mainly depends.

The work at the same time aims at being progressive, both in the amount of knowledge which it conveys at different stages, and in the style of treatment which the subject receives. Simple Classification, for example, is separated both from the subdivisions of the Parts of Speech, and from Inflection. The book may thus easily be adapted, by judicious selections and

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