Excerpt from Illustrated Lessons in Our Language, or How to Speak and Write Correctly: Designed to Teach English Grammar, Without Its Technicalities Much of our systematic grammar consists of matter practically of little importance because it has no bearing on correctness of speaking or writing. It is by passing over such matter that room is found for the great variety of Exercises here presented in connection with points on which there is special liability to error. Besides unusually full and thorough practice in the correction of false syntax, and in composition from the very commence. Ment, punctuation, sentential analysis (according to a. Simple system, unen cumbered by diagrams and requiring no elaborate preparation on the teach er's part), the leading principles of good style, oral criticism, business cor respondence with a variety of mercantile forms, and especially the means of securing fluency of expression, receive careful attention. 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.