Excerpt from The Student's Manual of Marathi Grammar: Designed for High Schools The following pages were first written by me for the benefit of my own pupils, who were preparing for Matriculation, as they could not find all the needful information in the existing treatises on Marathi Grammar. Believing that they might prove useful to other students, I have ventured to publish them; and should scholars, who may chance to see them, suggest any improvements, I shall feel grateful. I have paid special attention to simplicity and perspicuity in the composition of this book, and have on this account abstained from all allusion to Sanskrit and other languages, except in the chapters on derivation. I have treated of the several departments of Grammar separately, which may have the effect of setting this intricate subject in a clear and interesting form before the student. I have earnestly sought to unfold and evolve the laws and principles of the Marathi language, rather than engraft those of other languages on it, but how far I have succeeded in my attempts I leave it to the public to judge. The classification of the laws of the changes of vowels and consonants, which take place in inflection and composition; the division of the verbs into conjugations; the systematic arrangement of the compounds under throe classes, and the observations on the obscure and apparent compounds, the formation of the vocables, &c. &c., are quite new and original. The chapter on the origin of the inflections cannot fail to interest the student. It is, indeed, a most important discovery which philologists have made, that the inflections, which were looked upon but a few years back as meaningless particles, are words or fragments of words; it has thrown a flood of interesting light upon the whole subject of Grammar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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."