Much attention is paid to the subject of Compound sentences: and the construction of sentences, which has always appeared extremely difficult to foreigners, is explained in a few rules, so as scarcely to leave any room for committing errors. The laws of German syntax have been simplified, and at the same time rendered precise, by being reduced under the heads of the three combinations (Predicative, Attributive, and Objective). The introduction of the author’s views on general grammar has led to the important distinction between Notional and Relational words in consequence of which the rules relative to pronouns and auxiliary verbs appear in a new light: also to a new classification of cases, of the relations expressed by them, and of the prepositions which are employed instead of them. They will find that it adopts the formation of words as the foundation of German grammar that in enlarging upon the laws of the formation of words, it shows their intimate connection with the laws of inflection that it deduces from the same source the gender of substantives, the explanation of which has hitherto baffled all attempts at artificial rules, and the declension of substantives and adjectives, for which each Grammar has proposed a peculiar system, but which is now reduced to its natural simplicity and that it does away with the long list of irregular verbs, which have always been so heavy a burden to the memory of students, but are now almost all classed in a few regular conjugations. Those who are acquainted with the subject of this work, will at first sight discover in what respects it differs from other books bearing a similar title. ![]() Upon that work the present German Grammar for the use of Englishmen has been modelled, with such additions, omissions, and modifications, as were thought expedient in accommodating its contents to English readers.… Frankfurt, 1827) and, the views laid down in these writings having obtained the approbation of his countrymen, he has recently prepared a Grammar of the German language for the use of Germans ( Deutsche Grammatik. Frankfurt, 1824) subsequently he published a treatise on the Philosophy of Language ( Organism der Sprache. He first endeavoured to point out the laws of the formation of words in the German language ( Deutsche Wortbildung. The author of this work has been for some time engaged in similar researches. ![]() von Humboldt occupies the most prominent station. At the same time the principles of general grammar have been very successfully elucidated by other philosophical inquirers, among whom Baron W. Grimm, have opened a new road to the study of the German language, by their historical investigations into the ancient Teutonic tongue, and by their comparisons of the different languages and dialects derived from that common source. Ome German grammarians among whom the greatest merit is unquestionably due to Dr. It is some 20 pages long and is the last part of the book. Chapter V of Part II, “Of Constructions”, is missing.
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