A BRIEF HISTORY OF ITS

GRAMMATICAL CHANGES AND ITS VOCABULARY.

WITH EXERCISES ON

SYNONYMS, PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES, WORD-ANALYSIS
AND WORD-BUILDING.

A TEXT-BOOK FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.

BY

BRAINERD KELLOGG, LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN THE BROOKLYN POLYTECHNIO
INSTITUTE, AUTHOR OF A TEXT-BOOK ON RHETORIC," "A TEXT-BOOK ON ENGLISH

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LITERATURE," AND ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF "REED & KELLOGG'S
GRADED LESSONS IN ENGLISH," HIGHER LESSONS IN
ENGLISH," AND "ONE-BOOK COURSE IN ENGLISH,'

AND

ALONZO REED, A.M.,

**HIGHER

AUTHOR OF "INTRODUCTORY LANGUAGE WORK, ," "WORD LESSONS," AND ONE OF THE
AUTHORS OF "REED & KELLOGG'S GRADED LESSONS IN ENGLISH,'
LESSONS IN ENGLISH," AND "ONE-BOOK COURSE IN ENGLISH.

NEW YORK:

EFFINGHAM MAYNARD & Co., PUBLISHERS,

771 BROADWAY AND €7 & 69 NINTH STREET.

1891.

GIFT OF THE

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758.71-506. May 4, 1934

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AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY-

THE COMPLETE COURSE IN ENGLISH

INCLUDES

REED'S INTRODUCTORY LANGUAGE WORK.

REED'S WORD LESSONS-A COMPLETE SPELLER.
REED & KELLOGG'S GRADED LESSONS IN ENGLISH.
REED & KELLOGG'S HIGHER LESSONS IN ENGLISH.
REED & KELLOGG'S ONE-BOOK COURSE IN ENGLISH.
KELLOGG'S RHETORIC.

KELLOGG'S ENGLISH LITERATURE.

KELLOGG & REED'S ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

KELLOGG'S EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS.
THE ENGLISH CLASSIC SERIES.

COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY

BRAINERD KELLOGG AND ALONZO REED.

Press of J. J. Little & Co.
Astor Place, New York

PREFACE.

EDUCATED people are not agreed that it is well for the student to spend years in the study of Latin and Greek, but all agree that the English pupil should know his own tongue thoroughly. It is safe to say that there is a strong and growing inclination to give much less attention to the so-called classical languages, and to concentrate attention upon English and other modern languages, and upon the studies taught in English. If Latin is to be pursued at all, we are told that it should be because of its connection with our tongue, and the instruction in it should be made directly tributary to the pupil's advancement in that tongue.

Our language has its roots in the Anglo-Saxon and in the Latin. The Anglo-Saxon gives us our grammar and a large fraction of our vocabulary; the Latin yields us a still greater number of words, and has modified our grammar. If, as we think, one must know something of the sources of a language in order to know that language critically, then no one can be said to be well educated in English who is unacquainted with the changes which the Anglo-Saxon grammar and words have undergone in becoming English, and who is unfamiliar with the meaning, and unskilled in the handling, of the prolific Latin roots from which, by the aid of prefixes and suffixes, such hosts of English derivatives have been formed.