An English Grammar

<p>Now and then it has been deemed best to omit explanations and to withhold personal preferences in order that the student may by actual contact with the sources of grammatical laws discover for himself the better way in regarding given data.</p><p> </p><p>It is not the grammarian's business to correct: it is simply to record and to arrange the usages of language and to point the way to the arbiters of usage in all disputed cases. Free expression within the lines of good usage should have widest range.</p><p> </p><p>It has been our aim to make a grammar of as wide a scope as is consistent with the proper definition of the word. Therefore in addition to recording and classifying the facts of language we have endeavored to attain two other objects to cultivate mental skill and power and to induce the student to prosecute further studies in this field.</p><p> </p><p>It is not supposable that in so delicate and difficult an undertaking there should be an entire freedom from errors and oversights.</p><p> </p><p>We shall gratefully accept any assistance in helping to correct mistakes.</p>