The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 26

Composition Grammar and Analysis

Contents

• • [title page]
  • Prefatory
• • Part First — Grammar, Analysis, and Composition: Notes on their Teaching
    • Grammar
    • I.—Our Common Grammars Defective p. 6
      • [introduction] p. 6
      • The Noun
      • The Adjective p. 7
      • The Pronoun p. 8
      • The Verb p. 10
    • II.—How to use Defective Text-Books p. 12
    • III.—Grammar a Logical Course p. 13
    • Analysis of Sentences p. 15
    • Composition p. 16
    • I.—All Grammar Should be Practically Used in Composition
    • II.—The Idioms of our Language Should be Conquered by Systematic Practice p. 18
    • III.—The General Principles of Composition Should be Systematically Taught p. 20
  • Part Second. — The Combined Teaching of Grammar, Analysis, and Composition From the First p. 23
    • [introduction] p. 23
    • I.—Method of Beginning the Conjoint Teaching of these Subjects p. 25
      • First Stage: The Elementary Composition of the Simple Sentence p. 25
      • I. The Radical Idea of a Simple Sentence—Its Duality—The Noun, and Verb, and Pronoun
      • II. Adjuncts to these two Radical Elements—the Adjective and Adverb p. 26
      • III. Writing of Short Compositions with Preceding Elements
      • Remarks on this First Stage p. 28
    • II.—The Rest of this Combined Course p. 30
    • III.—General Remarks on the Combined Course p. 32
      • 1. Can the General Principles of Composition be taught from the beginning? p. 32
      • 2. Age for Beginning p. 33
      • 3. Composition should be Taught in Elementary Schools even when Grammar cannot be Taught p. 34

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