ADVERTISEMENT. As many of the examples in the book of Exercises, contain several errors in the same sentence, and some of them admit of various constructions in amending them; a Key for ascertaining all the corrections, and giving them the neatest form, appears to be indispensa ble and this is the more expedient, from the work's being designed for the benefit of private learners, as well as for the use of schools. The Key now produced will, it is presumed, answer the ends in view. It not only shows the corrected words and phrases of each sentence, distinguished by Italic letters, but exhibits the sentence at large, in all its parts. This method of pointing out the correc tions, will produce a better effect, than if the alterations had been denoted only by detached, mutilated parts of the sentence in question. By the plan we have adopted, the work has a more regular and uniform appearance; the correspondent parts may be more readily examined; and the propriety of the corrections will be more apparent and striking. The best mode of correcting the errors in the book of Exercises, appears to be the following. Let the student examine, with attention, the erroneous conVOL. II. X struction; compare it with the rule of grammar to which it relates; and then express the whole sentence precisely as he conceives it ought to be. After he has proceeded in this manner, he should compare his amendments with those which are contained in the Key; and make such further improvements as the comparison may suggest. This process would be a pleasing and encouraging exercise of the student's ingenuity; and would strongly impress on his mind the principles on which the corrections are made. The sentences, besides their grammatical use, are of an interesting and instructive nature; and most of them contain principles of piety and virtue. The language too, as it is exhibited in the Key, has been studiously regarded. They may therefore be considered as doubly useful to the student; serving at once to inculcate important, sentiments, and to fix in his memory the rules of grammatical construction. |