This textbook offers coursework in English composition and grammar. The first part concerns the sentence as a whole. The second deals with predicates and subjects, makes clear the nature of connectives and modifiers, explains the difference between phrases and clauses, and treats of several other of the more common matters of English syntax. Throughout both parts there are frequent demands for composition, both oral and written, for analysis of illustrative sentences, for grammatical study of sentences as they stand in the paragraph, and for exercise in criticism, in which is included group work. The third part is a very brief analysis of the parts of speech; it amounts to a review of what has already been studied and may be an introduction to a more mature study of the subject of grammar.