Correct English
Subtitle: How To Use  IT (a complete grammar)
By: by Josephine Turck Baker.
Edition: First
Publisher: The H.M. Rowe  Co. Educational Publishers
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: English language -- Composition and exercises.; English language -- Grammar.
Genres: Composition and exercises.
Description: PREFACE.
Usage has fixed certain forms and arrangements of our language that have become accepted as correct, and that must be observed by those who would speak and write correctly. This usage in the main is expressed in what are known as the rules and principles of English grammar.
Successful teaching involves not only the application of grammatical rules in determining correct forms of diction, but also the cultivation in the student of a very keen discrimination in the use and the arrangement of words.
The distinguishing characteristics of this work are found in the clear statement of the rules governing the forms of our language and in the importance given to the exercises and drills in the application of these rules.
The best selection and arrangement of words are those which will best express the thought to be conveyed. A mere consideration of the arbitrary rules of grammar will not make correct speakers or writers. Unless the drills and exercises provided convince the learner of the superiority of correct forms of speech over incorrect forms, as a means for him to convey his thought, no lasting impression will be made upon his mind, and no effective result will be secured from his study.
A rule of grammar that justifies itself to the judgment and reason of the learner, will thereafter most likely direct him in his thought and speech.
The mind comprehends largely by comparisons, and, therefore, we have endeavored to quicken the observation and the discrimination of the student by contrasting in some instances correct forms with incorrect forms. It will be observed that particular attention has been given in this respect to those incorrect expressions which have become common through general use.
Notes: Includes indexes.