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Excerpt from A Latin Grammar, on the System of Crude Forms
But an analysis such as we allude to, though necessary to justify the system of crude forms to the scholar, is a matter with which the beginner has no concern. To him the nouns are exhibited for the first time in their naked form. He is told that equo is a horse, ' and is taught to proceed from it as a starting-point to the several cases, including the nomina tive itself. In this process he has some great advantages over those who employ the system in common use. He can never be under the slightest difficulty about the declension to which a noun belongs. The last letter is an invariable guide. Gradu a step' must belong to the fourth declension, because it ends in a; domino an owner' must belong to the second, because it ends in o. On the other hand, in the ordinary system the nominatives gradus and dominus having a common ending, are very apt to lead a beginner into error. So again pater a father, ' linter 'a boat, ' liber a book, ' have a deceitful similarity of termination, which must frequently mislead. But the crude form system places these words before the pupil as pater, Iin teri and libero, so that they are at once referred to their proper declensions. Nay more, the order in which the declensions are arranged becomes itself a matter of indifference, as it is enough to distinguish them by their terminal letters, viz. A declension, o declension, &c.
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