From the preface: There is no attempt at erudition in the exercises of "Studies in Grammar." It is not a book of rhetoric, nor is it a technical grammar. It is not an end in itself; it is merely a guide to an end - correctly spoken and written English. There is nothing new within its pages. It was written by a teacher who had used numerous text books over the years, with varying degrees of success with each. Her frustration ultimately led her to craft a set of lessons of her own for use in her classes. She prepared lessons that could be used by every pupil, lessons so simply written that the slow, as well as the bright, would be able to gain the information that would function in his written and oral expression. Little by little these lessons grew into problems until there came into existence an entire course in grammar, sentence construction, and punctuation, based upon the laws of logic and psychology. This venture was so successful in practice that these lessons have been gathered here in this book, a book that results in a maximum of student activity and a minimum of teacher activity. It is written to be a laboratory in which the boys and girls who constitute the average folk will gain the ability to express their thoughts in correct English, a possession that can bring much happiness to the one who possesses