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Excerpt from Word-Analysis: A Graded Class-Book of English Derivative Words, With Practical Exercises in Spelling, Analyzing, Defining, Synonyms, and the Use of Words If the study of Word-Analysis has not yet the assured and definite place it should by rights have in our ordinary school course, we may perhaps find the reason in the lack, thus far, of text-books technically constructed with a view to such simplification and graduation of the study as are required to meet the needs of elementary instruction. There is, at least, a wide and growing realization of the fact that the study of the English language is very inadequately provided for in the old system, which deals but with the forms of our native speech, and does not even touch its substance. The barrenness of the ancient grammatical training is too notorious for it to be possible that it should long retain its usurped primacy as the sole means of linguistic discipline. Formal grammar will not lose its place, and should not lose its place; but we may well believe that it will undergo such a re-adjustment as the enlarged modem views demand - at any rate, that it shall not displace other branches of the study of English that are equally important and far more fruitful. Theoretically, the study of the English language embraces three departments: 1.The study of the English vocabulary - Word-Analysis. 2.The study of the structure of English - Mixed Grammar and Composition. 3.The study of English forms - Grammar. The Graded Word-Book has for its object to supply a practical working manual treating of the first department of the study of our language - namely, the study of the English vocabulary. It presents three prominent points of peculiarity that distinguish it from all previous text-books of etymology: - 1.It is so graded that part I deals exclusively with English primitives and their derivatives. On this head little will need to be said in justification. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.