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Title: Word Study and English Grammar
A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses

Author: Frederick W. Hamilton

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Language: English

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TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES--PART VI, NO. 32

WORD STUDY
AND
ENGLISH GRAMMAR

A PRIMER _of_ INFORMATION ABOUT
WORDS THEIR RELATIONS
AND THEIR USES

BY
FREDERICK W. HAMILTON, LL.D.

EDUCATIONAL DIRECTOR
UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA

PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA
1918

COPYRIGHT, 1918
UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA
CHICAGO, ILL.

PREFACE

This volume, and those which follow it in Part VI of this series, is a
compilation from various sources. The occasion does not call for an
original treatise, but it does call for something somewhat different
from existing text-books. The books prepared for school use are too
academic and too little related to the specific needs of the apprentice
to serve the turn of those for whom this book is intended. On the other
hand the books for writers and printers are as a rule too advanced for
the best service to the beginner. The authors of this Part, therefore,
have tried to compile from a wide range of authorities such material as
would be suited to the needs and the experience of the young apprentice.

The "Rules for the Use and Arrangement of Words" are taken with some
modifications from "How to Write Clearly," Edwin A. Abbott, Boston;
Roberts Bros. This is a very excellent little book but is now, I
believe, out of print. The tables of irregular verbs are the same as
those used in "English Grammar for Common Schools," Robert C. and Thomas
Metcalf, New York; American Book Co.

The student is recommended to study some good grammar with great care.
There are many good gra