Principles of English Composition through Analysis and Synthesis

Excerpt from Principles of English Composition Through Analysis and Synthesis: A Text Book for the Senior Classes of Elementary Schools and for Pupil-Teachers. AS a means of teaching composition and the principles that 'govern sentence structure analysis of sentences has completely broken down and become outside the teaching profession entirely discredited. Pupils parse and parse analyse and analyse for years of their school life and in the end are ignorant of what constitutes a good sentence and wholly without ability to write one. The cause of this unsatisfactory result is not I think difficult to dis cover.. About the Publisher. Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.