Sentence Improvement: A Practice Book in Applied Grammar

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In the preparation of this book, the purpose of the writer has been to furnish the pupil with material and guidance that would render it necessary for him to make a thoughtful, practical application of the principles of grammar in oral and written expression.

Grammar is the subject that has, perhaps, given rise to more discussion than any other in the school curriculum. There are those who say that the study of technical grammar is practically worthless, and there are those, among them college authorities, superintendents of schools, and leading business men, who are demanding a better knowledge of grammar on the part of our boys and girls. The writer's experience convinced him long ago that both parties to this discussion about the value, or need, of grammar are right. Technical grammar without ability to make a practical application of it, is well nigh valueless; at the same time, our boys and girls do need a better knowledge of grammar, but of applied grammar.

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