AN

ENGLISH GRAMMAR:

COMPREHENDING

THE PRINCIPLES AND RULES

OF THE

LANGUAGE,

ILLUSTRATED BY

APPROPRIATE EXERCISES,

AND

A KEY TO THE EXERCISES.

RY LINDLEY MURRAY.

"They who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and
order, are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order."......BLAIR.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

THE FIFTH EDITION, IMPROVED.

STANFORD LIBRARY

York:

Printed by Thomas Wilson & Sons, High-Ousegate,

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN; FOR HARVEY
AND DARTON, LONDON: AND FOR WILSON AND SONS, YORK

1824.

LIBRARY OF

OR, EWALD FLÜGEL

THIS VOLUME COMPREHENDS,

FIRST-EXERCISES adapted to the various rules;
SECONDLY A KEY to the Exercises;

AND

THIRDLY-A COPIOUS ALPHABETICAL INDEX to the whole work.

THE Exercises and Key form practical illustrations of the principles, and of the most important notes and observations, contained in the first volume. The correspondence between the two volumes, has been so carefully marked, that the reader will have no difficulty in comparing every rule in the first, with its appropriate Exercise

and Key, in the second. In this comparison, he will always find a variety of exemplification, and, in many instances, extended views of the subject. These examples supersede the necessity of a great number of minute, subordinate rules.

In forming the Alphabetical Index, it was not the author's sole design to assist the student, in readily discovering particular points of grammar. He wished also to express the most important principles of the art, in short, comprehensive, and striking sentences, calculated to stimulate the learner's curiosity, and to impress the subjects more deeply in his memory. The author was desirous, that the work should at once form an Index to particulars, and an Epitome of the chief rules and principles of the language.

HOLDGATE, near YORK, 1808.

INTRODUCTION

TO THE DUODECIMO EDITION*.

THE principles of knowledge become most intelligible to young persons, when they are explained and inculcated by practical illustration and direction. This mode of teaching is attended with so many advantages, that it can scarcely be too much recommended, or pursued. Instruction which is enlivened by pertinent examples, and in which the pupil is exercised in reducing the rules prescribed to practice, has a more striking effect on the mind, and is better adapted to fix the attention, and sharpen the understanding, than that which is divested of these aids, and confined to bare positions and precepts; in which it too frequently happens, that the learner has no further concern, than to read and repeat them. The time and care employed in practical application, give occasion to survey the subject minutely, and in different points of view; by which it becomes more known and familiar, and produces stronger and more durable impressions.

The Introduction to the Duodecimo Edition, is retained in this volume, for the same reasons that the original Introduction to the Grammar, is retained in the first volume.