ENGLISH WORD STUDY A SERIES OF EXERCISES IN ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY. TO WHICH ARE APPENDED EXERCISES IN ANALYSIS BY HUGH F. CAMPBELL, M.A., HEAD ENGLISH MASTER, ABERDEEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL. PREFACE. THE following Questions and Exercises have been called forth by the exigencies of the Class-room. In teaching Dr. Bain's Higher English Grammar I often felt the want of an array of examples as illustrations, and as exercises for the pupils. This led me to compile sentences illustrating the more knotty points, and eventually to prepare a series of exercises covering the whole of Etymology. Along with the Exercises there are sets of Examination Questions which have been compiled with the view of providing material for a system of home exercises. It is difficult to over-estimate the importance of home exercises in the work of English teaching. I hope the Questions in the following pages besides testing the pupil's knowledge of Grammar may be useful exercises in Composition. Apart from the general appropriateness of selecting most of the sentences from the great English Classics there is the special advantage of introducing the pupil to choice gems of English Literature. I have aimed at making the Exercises consist almost entirely of the study of words. Alike under Classification, Inflection, and Derivation, the attention of the |