Composition Exercises in Elementary English [antikvár]

PREFACE The object of these composition exercises is to give foreign students of English a knowledge of the most important grammar meehanisms of the English language, together with the strueture of sentenees. As we learn by doing things, not by merely reading about things, the exercises themselves are more important than the grammatical notes, and it is for this reason that the grammatical notes have been limited to what is necessary for the exercises. Junior students do not need a eomprehensive treatise on English grammar, and to supply one in such a small space would be impossible. The notes and exercises have been arranged in four parts. Teachers will realize, however, that it is unnecessary to go through the book in the order that has been adopted. In Part I, for example, the seetions (and corresponding exercises) on " Subject and Finite Inversion " after a front-shiíted negatíve or after so and an adjective or adverb (§ 8 and § 9) may well be postponed until more important seetions have been dealt with. They are placed in the position they oecupy beeause this is their logical position, not beeause their importanee warrants such early treatment. Teachers will recognize, too, the advisability of having their pupils do Exercise 44 (on the s and es of the 3rd person singular, Present Tense) before or at the same time as the exercises on changing plural nouns to singular nouns (for the use of the indefinite article). For the material in Part I (24 Finites with Special v