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| His writing is good. Again, they may make out a list of adjectives, with the adverbs derived from each in another column.
Then they may classify adverbs on the principle of their meaning, or according to their termination.
The exercise may be infinitely varied, and yet the object of the whole may be to make _perfectly familiar_, and to fix forever in the mind the distinction explained. These two points seem to me to be fundamental, so far as assisting pupils through the difficulties which lie in their way is concerned. Diminish the difficulties as far as is necessary by shortening and simplifying the steps, and make thorough work as you go on.
These principles, carried steadily into practice, will be effectual in leading any mind through any difficulties which may occur.
And though they can not, perhaps, be fully applied to every mind in a large school, yet they can be so far acted upon in reference to the whole mass as to accomplish the object for a very large majority. 3.
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