KEY то THE EXERCISES ADAPTED TO MURRAY's ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Calculated to enable Private Learners TO BECOME THEIR OWN INSTRUCTERS, IN GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE EXERCISES. THE FIFTEENTH EDITION. York: Printed by Thomas Wilson & Sons, High-Ousegate, FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; AND FOR DARTON AND HARVEY, LONDONE. 1818. 428.2 key 1838 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE TENTH EDITION. 2 THE author of this work, and of the books connected with it, thinks it is incumbent upon him to make some apology, for the variations which are to be found in the different editions. The infirm state of his health; his numerous occupations; and the quick succession of new editions of his English Grammar, English Exercises, and Key to the Exercises, prevented him from giving these books, at an early period of their publication, all the improvements which he had contemplated, or which had been occasionally suggested to him. The successive additions and improvements which these works have received, and which sometimes occasioned a want of correspondence amongst them, must certainly have been productive of inconvenience or expense, to many persons who had purchased the earlier editions. This, though the author regretted the circumstance, was, for the reasons alleged, unavoidable. He must either have suppressed the improvements entirely, or have in serted them gradually as the new editions appeared: but as he conceived them to be of considerable importance, he could not think it warrantable to omit them; and the approbation of the public has confirmed him in the propriety of this decision. It is with particular satisfaction that the author can now state, that the additions and alterations which he had in view, are completed, and are contained in the sixteenth edition of the Grammar, the twelfth of the Exercises, and the tenth of the Key; that these editions of the books correspond exactly to one another; and that it is his intention that, in every future edition of each of them, this correspondence shall be faithfully preserved. It is indeed possible, that some illustrations or justification of particular rules and positions contained in the Grammar, may yet be necessary. But if, contrary to expectation, this should be the case, the practical parts of the system will not be affected by such additions. The connexion, as it now subsists, between the Grammar, the Exercises, and the Key, will remain invariably the same; unless some error, at present unobserved, should hereafter be discovered. As the types composing the Grammar have, for a considerable time, been kept standing; and as the book could not be enlarged without advancing its price; many of the subsequent improvements have been necessarily inserted in appropriate parts of the Exercises, or the Key. References have, however, been made in the Grammar, under the correspondent rules, to the additional notes and illustrations. To this mode of supplying improvements, the reader will have the less objection, when he considers, that the Exercises and the Key are necessary appendages to the Grammar; and serve to illustrate and enforce, as well as to extend, its rules and positions. The three volumes are indeed intimately connected, and constitute one uniform system of English Grammar. To this edition of the Key, the author has subjoined a copious Alphabetical Index to the Grammar, the Exercises, and the Key: a work, which he flatters himself, will be generally useful; and particularly acceptable to students who have made some progress in the knowledge of grammar. HOLDGATE near York, 1808. See the Advertisement at page 220 of this volume. A 3 |