This textbook is for use in an eighth-grade English course. It serves as a brief course in live, practical grammar, intended primarily for use in the grammar grades or junior high school. The subject is divided into three main parts as follows: (1) studies in Sentence Structure, applied through exercises in sentence building; (2) the Parts of Speech studied from the use viewpoint; and (3) a Practical Study of Inflections with drills to fix the right habits of speech. The author's aim is to reduce grammar to its lowest terms by eliminating the non-essentials and to vitalize the subject by applying the essentials in daily life language. [For the accompanying Teachers' Manual, see ED623421.]