Language Exercises - Couverture souple

Metcalf, Robert Comfort; Bright, Orville T

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1437086284 ISBN 13 : 9781437086287

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

Language Exercises is a book written by Robert Comfort Metcalf and originally published in 1889. The book is a comprehensive guide to English grammar and language usage, designed to help students improve their language skills through a series of exercises and examples.The book covers a wide range of topics, including parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, and vocabulary. Each chapter includes a variety of exercises, ranging from simple fill-in-the-blank questions to more complex sentence analysis and composition tasks.In addition to the exercises, the book also includes detailed explanations of key concepts and rules of English grammar, as well as examples of correct and incorrect usage. This makes it a valuable resource for both students and teachers alike.Overall, Language Exercises is a practical and useful guide to improving one's English language skills, and remains a popular resource for language learners over a century after its initial publication.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The vse of language is controlled very largely by habiL Hence, language teaching resolves itself into such training as will tend to form correct habits of speaking and writing. Technical grammar is the science of language. We study it to learn of the construction of sentences and of the forms and uses of words. Such knowledge will doubtless help us to a critical rather than to the ordinary use of language. He who depends upon his knowledge of Grammar to help him through a speech, or even in his every-day conversation, will doubtless find that his thoughts, when they are seeking expression in words, are far from Grammars and grammatical rules. He will find that the fluency and correctness of his speech depend almost entirely upon habits which have been formed by long practice. Professor W. D. Whitney, in the preface to his Essentials of English Orammar, very truly says: It is constant use and practice, under never-failing watch and correction, that makes good writers and speakers; the application of direct authority is the most efficient corrective. Grammar has its part to contribute, but rather in the higher than the lower stages of the work. One must be a somewhat reflective user of language to amend even here and there a point by grammatical reasons; and no one ever changed from a bad speaker to a good one by applying the rules of grammar to what he said. The teacher, then, should aim in the class-room to give his pupils such training as will tend to form correct habits of expression. He must remember that language is an expression of thought; and, consequently, that correct thinking should precede expression. The thought of the pupil being clear, the teacher should give frequent opportunities for its expression.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1437086284
• ISBN 13: 9781437086287
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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