learned before, they ought to form subjects of explanation and discussion for the teacher, so as to extend the knowledge of the pupil, and establish it on a rational basis. The number of examples illustrating the various rules might easily have been made more numerous; but as this Introductory Grammar is accompanied by a book of Exercises, beginning with the first elements of the language, it has been thought unnecessary to increase its size by such additions. The rules of gender and quantity, which are generally treated of separately in elementary grammars, have been given in connection with the inflections, and certain general principles only are laid down in separate sections at the beginning of the work, because without some general rules of this kind the beginner will not be able even to read and pronounce a Latin word or preposition correctly. EDINBURGH, December, 1851. L. S. 92 93 37 42 45 48 54 THE FOUR REGULAR CONJUGATIONS 94 PECULIAR AND CONTRACTED FORMS OF CONJUGATION............... 96 AND SUPINE DIFFERENTLY FROM THE GENERAL RULE........ 106 learned before, they ought to form subjects of explanation and discussion for the teacher, so as to extend the knowledge of the pupil, and establish it on a rational basis. The number of examples illustrating the various rules might easily have been made more numerous; but as this Introductory Grammar is accompanied by a book of Exercises, beginning with the first elements of the language, it has been thought unnecessary to increase its size by such additions. The rules of gender and quantity, which are generally treated of separately in elementary grammars, have been given in connection with the inflections, and certain general principles only are laid down in separate sections at the beginning of the work, because without some general rules of this kind the beginner will not be able even to read and pronounce a Latin word or preposition correctly. DERIVATION OF SUBSTANTIVES FROM VERBS, SUBSTANTIVES, AND ADJECTIVES................................................................................. 125 AGREEMENT BETWEEN SUBJECT AND PREDICATE............................................ 137 RELATIONS EXPRESSED BY THE NOMINATIVE AND ACCUSATIVE CASES, 140 |