To those men and women, not a few, educators in fact as well as name, who have freely assisted in the preparation of this book, by advice, by warning, and by making experimental test of the lessons and methods herein presented, a perpetual debt of obligation is gladly acknowledged. In an undertaking plainly iconoclastic, without constant cordial encouragement from practiced workers in the schoolroom even an unbounded faith in better methods might have given place to discouragement. Altho the educational press, representing the best literary culture of the United States, has long demanded the divorcing of language from grammar in our intermediate school grades, yet heretofore no book has answered this demand. Aiming to become a direct means toward the betterment of our living speech, "Everyday English" begs to tell to you its own simple story. Minneapolis, Minnesota. May 30, 1902. JEAN SHERWOOD RANKIN. XVIII. XX. For Teachers; Helps and Suggestions: Specific Suggestions XIX. Upon Certain Niceties of Speech Everyday Errors and Their Cause XXI. The Literal and the Figurative |