Excerpt from English Grammar, Made Easy to the Teacher and Pupil: Originally Compiled for the Use of West-Town Boarding School, Pennsylvania IT may be proper to observe, that the author of this compilation has studied so to abridge. And arrange the definitions and rules necessary to be committed to memory, as not to burden the pupil, and yet, by the frequent repetition and application of them in parsing, to rehder them clear and explicit. As it is found that} no advantage arises from burdening the me mories of children with a multitude of precepts1 which they do not comprehend, the compiler has interspersed a riumberof examples for pars ing, wherein, after a few of the definitions are committed to memory, they may be repeated. 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.