National Series of Standard School-Sootes. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 



CLARK'S DIAGRAM SYSTEM. 



Ciark's Easy Lessons in Language, 



Published 1874. Contains illustrated object-lessons of the moet attractive charac. 

 ter, and is couched in language freed as much as possible from the dry technicalities 

 of the science. 



Clark's Brief English Grammar, 



Published 1872. Part I. is adapted to youngest learners, and the whole forms a 

 complete ' brief course " in one volume, adequate to the wants of the common 

 school. 



Clark's Normal Grammar, 



Published 1870, and designed to take the place of Prof. Clark's veteran "Prac- 

 tical" Grammar, though the latter is still furnished upon order. The Normal is 

 an entirely new treatise. It is a full exposition of the system as described below, 

 with all the most recent improvements. Some of its peculiarities are A happy 

 blending of SYNTHESES with ANALYSES ; thorough Criticisms of common errora 

 in the use of our Language ; and important improvements in the Syntax of Sen- 

 tences and of Phrases. 



Clark's Key to the Diagrams, 



Clark's Analysis of the English Language, 



Clark's Grammatical Chart, 



The theory and practice of teaching grammar in American schools is meeting 

 with a thorough revolution from the use of this system. While the old method* 

 offer proficiency to the pupil only after much weary plodding and dull memorizing, 

 this affords from the inception the advantage of practical Object^ Teaching, address- 

 ing the eye by means of illustrative figures ; furnishes association to the m2mory, 

 Its most powerful aid, and diverts the pupil by taxing his ingenuity. Teachers 

 who are using Clark's Grammar uniformly testify that they and their pupils find it 

 the most interesting study of the bchoo! course. 



Like all great arid radical improvements, the system naturally met at first with 

 much unreasonable opposition. It has not onty outlived the greater part of this 

 opposition, but finds many of its warmest admirers among those who could not 

 at first tolerate so radical an innovation. All it wants is an impartial trial to con- 

 vince the most skeptical of its merit. No one who has fairly and intelligently, 

 tested it in the school-room has ever been known to go back to the old method.} 

 A great success is already established, and it is easy to prophecy that the day is 

 not far distant when it will be the only system of teaching English Grammar. A 

 the SYSTEM is copyrighted, no other text-books can appropriate this obvious nni 

 great improvement. 



Welch's Analysis of the English Sentence, 



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Remarkable for its new and simple classification, its method of treating conneo. 

 vea, its explanations of the idioms and constructive laws of the language, etc. 



