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I have throughout spoken of inflected words in the usual manner. I have done so because, while to persons who have been taught on the stem-system, either mode of pre sentation is equally intelligible, this could by no means be assumed to be true of those who have learned to regard the nominative case or the first person as the starting point and I desired to render the book as generally useful as I could. I mention this because I do not wish it to be under stood that my abstaining from giving the stems of inflected words is due, in the least degree,to any weakening of my faith in the enormous advantages of that system. On the contrary, in. Creased experience only enhances my surprise that so manifest an improvement should still be waiting for universal recog nition. To quote prof. G. Curtius. Erla'uf. C. 6. (eng. Tr. P. In the whole theory Of inflection, everything turns on the strong and sharp distinction between stem and termin ation. On this is based all analysis of forms. Even the pupil can easily be brought to understand that the stem of a noun, to go no further for an instance, which peculiarly and exclu sively conveys the meaning, runs through all the cases, while the terminations are added to it to denote the several cases, among which the nominative singular naturally has a place. Compared with all the earlier methods the stem-sys tem has the advantage of far greater simplicity.

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Excerpt from Probatio Latina: A Series of Questions Designed to Test the Progress of Learners in the Latin Language

I have throughout spoken of inflected words in the usual manner. I have done so because, while to persons who have been taught on the stem-system, either mode of pre sentation is equally intelligible, this could by no means be assumed to be true of those who have learned to regard the nominative case or the first person as the starting point and I desired to render the book as generally useful as I could. I mention this because I do not wish it to be under stood that my abstaining from giving the stems of inflected words is due, in the least degree,to any weakening of my faith in the enormous advantages of that system. On the contrary, in. Creased experience only enhances my surprise that so manifest an improvement should still be waiting for universal recog nition. To quote prof. G. Curtius. Erla'uf. C. 6. (eng. Tr. P. In the whole theory Of inflection, everything turns on the strong and sharp distinction between stem and termin ation. On this is based all analysis of forms. Even the pupil can easily be brought to understand that the stem of a noun, to go no further for an instance, which peculiarly and exclu sively conveys the meaning, runs through all the cases, while the terminations are added to it to denote the several cases, among which the nominative singular naturally has a place. Compared with all the earlier methods the stem-sys tem has the advantage of far greater simplicity.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This little book has been prepared mainly with the purpose of furnishing Teachers the means of readily testing the progress of their pupils in Latin. I presume it will be generally admitted that this can be better done, at least as regards exactness and breadth, by the examination of answers given in writing to printed questions, than by any sort of oral recitation. But, moreover, I feel convinced from my own experience that an examination of this kind operates most powerfully on the mental growth of the learner. It reveals to himself his short-comings, with a clearness equaled by nothing else in his school-work, and it forces him to form the habit of bracing his powers to attack, often with success, questions which at first seem wholly beyond his grasp.

I am not acquainted with any book which is constructed exactly on the plan here adopted. There are some books which contain questions adapted to the course of particular grammars, and others again which are made up of a collection of papers actually proposed in different school or college examinations. The adoption of the former plan seemed likely to restrict materially the usefulness of the book, where so many different grammars are in use; and the latter would involve the necessity of repeating again and again questions on the same topic, and would thereby cause the book to reach an unwieldy size if it should aim at anything like completeness.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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