Lessons in Language: An Introduction to the Study of English Grammar (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Most children twelve years of age should be able to speak and write the English language with considerable readiness and accuracy, to avoid the common vulgarisms, and to detect the most frequent errors of speech, arrangement, and notation.

The ordinary methods of teaching English grammar do little to establish a correct use of language.

The text-books in common use appeal chiefly to the memory. They are placed in the hands of young pupils who memorize them, and, perhaps, recite satisfactory lessons, but the real result is the acquirement of many terms and definitions, which convey but little meaning, and give but little mental growth. The practical use of language is not acquired thereby.

The injury inflicted upon the pupil is a double one. First, after much toil he fails to reap any substantial benefit. Second, he acquires wrong habits of study, which usually hinder thought, and give a great distaste for the subject. For the duties of life he is but little better fitted than though he had not "finished" English grammar.

A practical knowledge of the language is to be acquired through an intelligent observation and use of it. rather than through a study of the science.

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