Verwandte Artikel zu A Guide to the Matriculation Examination
Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1878. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, ENGLISH HISTORY AND MODERN GEOGRAPHY. The morning of the fourth day is devoted to the paper on the English Language; in the afternoon comes the paper on English History, to which are added a few questions on modern Geography. If you read through the examination paper on the English language given in the appendix to this Guide, you will see that great attention is given to the history of the language. The teaching of English grammar is now being put upon a really scientific basis, by teaching not only what forms of speech we use at present, but how it is we come to use them, and by showing that apparent exceptions to what used to be called the rules of English grammar, are really remnants of the older forms of our English tongue. Grammars of the Lindley Murray type, which really did little more than enumerate the parts of speech, conjugate the verbs so as to make them look as like a Latin verb as possible, and lay down arbitrary rules followed by hosts of exceptions, are now quite gone out of fashion. Prom such books you cannot possibly get up thematter of theexamination. Forthis purposeyou had better take either Dr. Angus's " Handbook of the English Tongue" (Religious Tract Society, 5s.), or Dr. Richard Morris's " Elementary Lessons in Historical English Grammar" (Macmillan, 3s. 6£); and of the two I should certainly prefer the latter book. Suppose you use Dn Morris's book, the chief points to attend to are these:--Throughout use your note book to collect good examples and illustrations of the various facts and rules. You need only note two or three of those which strike you most; with them very briefly note a few words to remind you of what they illustrate. Thus you will make a good analysis or skeleton of the book,...
Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
