Grammar of the New Zealand language (2nd edition)

Transcriber's Note:
A macron (e. g. ā ) indicates a long vowel and a breve (e. g. ă ) indicates a short vowel.
Various notes and remarks of less importance to a beginner are set in smaller type: c. f. the last paragraph of the Preface to the First Edition.
There are minor inconsistencies beween the sections listed in the Table of Contents and those in the text itself.
Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained. Apparent errors of punctuation, capitals and italics, that are inconsistent with the sense of the text, have been corrected.
Apparent errors or obscure type affecting Maori or English spelling have also been corrected. Maori corrections are listed at the end of the text.
BY R. MAUNSELL, L. L. D., ARCHDEACON OF WAIKATO. SECOND EDITION. AUCKLAND: PUBLISHED BY W. C. WILSON, SHORTLAND-STREET, 1862. AUCKLAND: PRINTED BY W. C. WILSON, NEW ZEALANDER OFFICE.
Amongst the principal of these alterations is the omission of many passages exhibiting extreme niceties of the language, which, although useful to the finished scholar, were thought to be scarcely necessary to the ordinary student, and were complained of as embarrassing to the beginner.
The author begs to express his acknowledgments to his friend Mr. Fenton, late Resident Magistrate of Waikato, and one of the few who have studied the language grammatically, for carrying the present work through the press.
Kohanga, Waikato, January, 1862.

All these may be stated to bear to each other a remarkable radical affinity. Many words, it is true, may be found in one which are unknown in another; but the grammar of any will give a great insight into the texture of all .