Chapter I: Preface: To the Third Edition

The favourable reception that the former Editions of this little book have met with, calls for a word of acknowledgment. It seems that not only the little folks for whom it was intended, but children of a larger growth have read it with interest; and students, who spend days and nights “with weary eyesight poring over miserable books,” have condescended to turn over these pages, and laughingly admit that the imagination may sow even the dustiest of book-shelves with flowers.

Teachers of the younger classes in schools have found this little volume extremely useful; and it is suggested, that though children will often read it with pleasure by themselves, they will derive much more profit from it when it is made the text-book for a lesson. The simple exercises appended to each chapter will then be found both useful and entertaining.

CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTION--JUDGE GRAMMAR AND HIS SUBJECTS 1

CHAPTER I.
MR. NOUN 7

CHAPTER II.
LITTLE ARTICLE 15

CHAPTER III.
MR. PRONOUN 20

CHAPTER IV.
SERJEANT PARSING’S VISIT TO SCHOOLROOM-SHIRE 28

CHAPTER V.
MR. ADJECTIVE 30

CHAPTER VI.
MR. ADJECTIVE TRIED FOR STEALING 37

CHAPTER VII.
THE QUARREL BETWEEN MR. PRONOUN AND MR. ADJECTIVE,
AND LITTLE INTERJECTION 45

CHAPTER VIII.
DR. VERB 54

CHAPTER IX.
DR. VERB’S THREE TENSES, NUMBER, AND PERSON 62

CHAPTER X.
SERJEANT PARSING IN SCHOOLROOM-SHIRE AGAIN 70

CHAPTER XI.
THE NOMINATIVE CASE 73

CHAPTER XII.
ADVERB 80

CHAPTER XIII.
PREPOSITION 86

CHAPTER XIV.
PREPOSITIONS GOVERN THE OBJECTIVE CASE 93

CHAPTER XV.
CONJUNCTION 99

CHAPTER XVI.
ACTIVE VERBS GOVERN THE OBJECTIVE CASE 106

CHAPTER XVII.
THE POSSESSIVE CASE; AND WHO’S TO HAVE
THE PRIZE? 114

GRAMMAR-LAND.