The Principles of Latin Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most Approved Grammars Extant; With an Appendix; For the Use of Schools and Colleges (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Principles of Latin Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most Approved Grammars Extant; With an Appendix; For the Use of Schools and CollegesIn the study of any language, the foundation of success must be laid in a thorough acquaintance with its principles. This being once attained, future progress becomes easy and rapid. To the student of language, therefore, a good Grammar, which must be his constant companion, is of all his books the most important, Such a work, to be really valuable, ought to be simple in its arrangement and style, so as to be adapted to the capacity of youth, for whose use it is designed; comprehensive, and accurate, so as to be a sufficient and certain guide in the most difficult as in easy cases; and its principles and rules should be rendered familiar by numerous examples and exercises.The fundamental principles are nearly the same in all languages. So far as Grammar is concerned, the difference lies chiefly in the minor details - in the forms and inflections of their words, and in the modes of expression peculiar to each, usually dominated idioms. It would seem, therefore, to be proper, in constructing Grammars for different languages, that the principles, so far as they are the same, should be arranged in the same order, and expressed as nearly as possible in the same words. Where this is carefully done, the study of the Grammar of one language becomes an important aid in the study of another; - an opportunity is afforded of seeing wherein they agree, and wherein they differ, and a profitable exercise is furnished in comparative or general grammar. But when a Latin Grammar is put into the hands of the student, differing widely in its arrangement or phraseology from the English Grammar which he had previously studied, and afterwards a Greek Grammar different from both, not only is the benefit derived from the analogy of the different languages in a great measure lost, but the whole subject is made to appear intolerably intricate and mysterious.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.