Essentials of English for Schools, Colleges, and Private Study (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Essentials of English for Schools, Colleges, and Private Study

Observed that either individuals or nations normally start with science.

Another error, which has been a long-standing cause of the unfruitfulness so often seen in English teaching, is the attempt to bring the facts and idioms of the language into conformity with the rules of Latin. But what have they now in common? Once, indeed, our English was in flected; but not till long after it began to cast itself into its present simple mould was a constructive grammar given it - then a grammar whose rules and nomenclature were taken from the Latin, with which it had scarcely any formal affinity, to which it bore no formal likeness, and from which, though it has borrowed words, it has bor rowed no principles. 'parts of speech' are recognized in the one, as Of Old, by the inflection test; in' the other, no longer thus, but by the junction Of ideas.

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