________________ give the students a good grounding in the Declension of the various bases and a precise knowledge of the use of the Adverbs and the numerals. The second Section deals with the Varbs and explains and illustrates thr various uses of the Tenses and the Moods and brings out some of the very peculiar and interesting usages. Since our object is to teach the language rather than its grammar, we could not restrict the student's choice of roots. Roots, therefore, have not been specified. The student is left free to make his own choice of roots which give easier and sweeter verbal forms. It also treats of some of the complex verbal formations such as the Desiderative and the Causative. Besides it has a dozen Exercises on Prepositonal Verbs whost value cannot be over-emphasized. Here we have selected twelve roots of every-day use and have illustrated their uses with different prepositions. This will save the student from the bother of memorising the paradigms of many roots and at the same time make his expression elegant Incidentally he would also know that roots take some prepoisitions and not others. The third Section treats of the cases, the Indeclinables, the Compounds, the Taddhita and krtya suffixes. We have divided the Cases into कारक विभक्तिs and उपपद विभक्तिs-this is not done even in books on grammar. This will give the students a better grasp of the subject than the usual promiscuous treatment. There are a few Exercises on the formation of Compounds which enlighten him as to their proper sphere. He is also referred to the Section on Compounds in
