ELEMENTARY LESSONS

IN

HISTORICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

IN

HISTORICAL

ENGLISH GRAMMAR

CONTAINING

Accidence and Word-Formation.

BY THE

REV. RICHARD MORRIS, LL.D.,

HONORARY M.A. OXFORD, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE

PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY, LONDON,
Author of " Historical butlines of English Accidence,'
Editor of “Old English Homilies,” “Cursor Mundi," etc.

London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK.

1888.

The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.

RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED,

LONDON AND BUNGAY.

First Edition 1874 ; 1875, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1980, 1881, 1882, 1884,

1886, 1888.

to the best of my ability to produce a short his

torical grammar that might be advantageously used

as an introduction to my larger book.

I have not, however, made a new book by cutting

down and compressing the old one.

These “ Ele

mentary Lessons" constitute an entirely indepen.