A Practical Malay Grammar

his work, as its name implies, is intended as a practical aid to English speaking people in their efforts to acquire a knowledge of the Malay language.


People naturally find it easier to grasp a new language if its grammatical construction is explained as far as possible in the same phraseology and on the same lines as they have been accustomed to in learning their own and other languages.  This grammar has therefore been arranged mainly on the usual plan of the grammars of European languages, and all philological investigations and scientific theories of the language have been intentionally avoided, as being beyond the scope of a "Practical Grammar."