How to Parse

Excerpt from How to Parse: An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Scholarship to English Grammar
The First Part of this book is intended for pupils so far advanced as to be able to distinguish the Parts of Speech. The author's object has been to teach elementary English Grammar as simply as is consistent with the honest recognition of difficulties, and not to accumulate masses of information that might be of use to foreigners, but must be useless to English boys.
I have been accused, by a very friendly and favourable reviewer, of "unkindness" in completely ignoring the "Article" in my introductory treatise How to Tell the Parts of Speech. It has occurred to me, in consequence, to prefix to this work a Glossary of Grammatical Terms-many of them, let us hope, obsolete or obsolescent. Here the pupil may now and then refresh his memory as to the meaning of Article, Genitive, Nominative, Accusative, Case, Proper Noun, Conjugation, Decline, and the like; and by this means he will be able to satisfy himself that many of these terms, when applied to the Grammar of his native tongue, are absolutely superfluous or erroneous. It is also probable that ready access to a Glossary, explaining etymologically Cardinal, Inflection, Apostrophe, Climax, Bathos, Verse, &c., may in many cases be of positive as well as negative benefit.
The Exercises are specially written to illustrate the rules. This has involved some labour; but I am convinced that the labour was well spent.
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