recitations on them seem to call for the use of pencil or chalk.  One successful teacher conducts the recitation with books open, requiring her pupils to cover the correct sentences with a strip of paper while they explain and correct the faults in the incorrect sentences.  The writer’s practice is to paste the faulty sentences on cards of convenient size and thickness—­the arrangement of columns is such that the sentences can all be cut from one old book—­and to distribute them among eight or ten pupils at the beginning of the recitation hour.  While other matters are being attended to, these pupils write the sentences in correct form on the blackboard, and, when the time comes, give their reasons for the changes which they have made.  Their work is discussed, if necessary, by the whole class.  Reviews and written tests should be frequent.  As fast as the various principles explained and illustrated in PARTS II. and III. are studied, the attention of pupils should be immediately turned to their own writing.  It will be far more profitable for them to correct their own offences against clearness, force, ease, and unity than to correct similar offences committed by others.  For this reason the PRACTICAL EXERCISES IN ENGLISH contains no exercises on the subjects discussed in PARTS II. and III. of the “Foundations.”

INDEX

A, an, or the, 12. Abbot, feminine corresponding to, 21.  Abbreviations, 22. Ability, capacity, distinguished, 29. Abundance, plenty, distinguished, 32. Accept, except, distinguished, 99. Acceptance, acceptation, distinguished, 25. Access, accession, distinguished, 25. Accredit, credit, distinguished, 92. Actor, feminine corresponding to, 21. Acts, actions, distinguished, 25. Adherence, adhesion, distinguished, 29.  ADJECTIVES, 109-133; defined, 109; vulgarisms in the use of, 109-113;
  singular and plural, 110; adjective or adverb, 113-116; redundant, 117-118;
  misused, 119-129; use of the comparative and superlative degrees, 129-131;
  adjectives incapable of comparison, 131-132; misplaced, 132-133.
Admit, confess, distinguished, 95. Advance, advancement, distinguished, 25.  ADVERBS, 109-133; defined,109; vulgarisms in the use of, 109-113;
  adverb or adjective, 113-116; redundant, 117-118; misused, 119-129;
  use of the comparative and superlative degrees, 129-131;
  adverbs incapable of comparison, 131-132; misplaced, 132-133;
  between to and the infinitive, 133.
Advise distinguished from advertise, 99;
  from persuade, 100.
Affect, effect, distinguished, 99. Affirm, claim, maintain, distinguished, 94-95. Afraid, scared, distinguished, 124. Aggravating, irritating, distinguished, 119. Ain’t, 71.  Alienisms, defined, 10. Alight, light, distinguished,