Charles Philip Wagner

Spanish Grammar Charles Philip Wagner

The present grammar represents the third stage of an experiment which the author has been carrying on in his classes, in the attempt to provide the maximum of material for oral work, without sacrificing that drill in the elements of Grammar which, in his opinion, must form the basis of all language study pursued under the artificial conditions of the class room. The first stage was the use, for three seasons, of a pamphlet of conversation material, the second, the use in a class of beginners, of the advance sheets of a large share of this book. In certain important respects, the result of this experiment presents a radical departure from the types of grammar now most in vogue. Detached sentences have been used in a few exercises for drill work; but elsewhere they have been discarded because of their failure to provide the important element of interest. In their place, connected dialogue and description have been introduced, based on a carefully selected vocabulary of every-day words, and illustrating the facts of form and syntax which make up the first part of each lesson. The sort of foot-note which tells the student to use the subjunctive or to omit the article without telling him why, has been discarded as well. The English to Spanish exercise has been banished from the current lesson because of the difficulty of doing satisfactory composition work with new material. Every fourth lesson has been made a composition lesson, containing only familiar material in new combinations, and preceded by a synopsis of the review on which it is based.
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