Murray's Exercises-Improved Stereotype Edition. Lindley MURRAY'S ENGLISH EXERCISES, CONSISTING OF EXERCISES IN PARSING; INSTANCES OF FALSE ORTHOGRAPHY; AND ACCURATE WRITING. With which the corresponding Notes, Rules, and Observations REVISED, PREPARED, AND PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO THE USE OF SCHOOLS: BEING A COUNTERPART TO THE ENGLISH TEACHER. BY ISRAEL ALGER, JUN., A. M. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY ROBERT S. DAVIS, 1835. held. Green, of the Senca Class, from Greten, llery DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: Edue T154.35.5%8 District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the 18th day of August, A. D. 1824, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Israel Alger, Jun., Ensign Lincoln, and Thomas Edmands, Jun., of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: Murray's Exercises-Improved Stereotype Edition. Murray's English Exercises, consisting of Exercises in Parsing; Instances of False Orthography; Violations of the Rules in Syntax; Defects in Punctuation; and Vio lations of the Rules respecting Perspicuous and Accurate writing. With which the corresponding Notes, Rules, and Observations in Murray's Grammar are incorporated; also references in promiscuous Exercises to the Rules by which the errours are to be corrected. Revised, prepared. and particularly adapted to the Use of Schools: being a counterpart to the English Teacher. By Israel Alger, Jun. A. M. In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an Act entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times there in mentioned: and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical, and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. A neat Stereotype Edition of Murray's Abridgment of Grammar, with Questions and numerous important improvements, corresponding to the Boston Stereotype Edition of Murray's Exercises, and also to the English Teacher, is for sale by Lincoln and Edmands, No. 53, Cornhill, and by Booksellers generally. This book is, by its own merits, fast making its way into publick and private schools." The following certificate is considered a sufficient recommendation of the work. "At a meeting of the School Committee, held at the Mayor and Aldermen's Room, May 5th, 1824, it was Voted, That Alger's Abridgment of Murray's Grammar, Boston Stereotype Edition, be introduced into the publick Reading and Grammar Schools of this city John Pierpont, Secretary." Boston, 15th June, 1824. INTRODUCTION. THE principles of knowledge become most intelligible to young persons, when they are explained and inculcated by prac tical illustration and direction. This mede of teaching is attended with so many advantages, that it can scarcely be too much recommended, or pursued. Instruction which is enlivened by pertinent examples, and in which the pupil is exercised in reducing the rules prescribed to practice, has a more striking effect on the mind, and is better adapted to fix the attention, and sharpen the understanding, than that which is divested of these aids, and confined to bare positions and precepts; in which it too frequently happens, that the learner has no further concern, than to read and repeat them. The time and care employed in practical application, give occasion to survey the subject minutely and in different points of view; by which it becomes more known and familiar, and produces stronger and more durable impressions. THESE observations are peculiarly applicable to the study of grammar, and the method of teaching it. The rules require frequent explanation; and, besides direct elucidation, they admit of examples erroneously constructed, for exercising the student's sagacity and judgment. To rectify these, attention and reflection are requisite; and the knowledge of the rule necessarily results from the study and correction of the sentence. But these are not all the advantages which arise from Grammatical Exercises. By discovering their own abilities to detect and amend errours, and their consequent improvement. the scholars become pleased with their studies, and are animated to proceed, and surmount the ob stacles which occur in their progress. The instructer too is re lieved and encouraged in his labours. By discerning exactly the powers and improvement of his pupils, he perceives the proper season for advancing them; and by observing the points in which they are deficient, he knows precisely where to apply his directions and explanations. THESE considerations have induced the Compiler to collect and arrange a variety of erroneous examples, adapted to the different rules and instructions of English Grammar, and to the principles of perspicuous and accurate writing. 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