The Grammar of English Grammars/Index
INDEX TO THE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH GRAMMARS.
[Asterism] In the following Index, the page of the Grammar is directly referred to: Obs. or N. before a numeral, stands for Observation or Observations, or for Note or Notes of the text: R. after a reference, stands for RULE. The small letter n., with an asterisk or other mark affixed to it, relates to a footnote with such mark in the Grammar. Occasionally, t., m., or b., or u., or l., accompanies a reference, to indicate the top, middle, or bottom, or the upper or the lower half, of the page referred to. Few abbreviations are employed beyond those of the ordinary grammatical terms. The Index is not intended to supersede the use of the Table of Contents, which stands after the Preface. It is occupied wholly with the matter of the Grammar proper; hence there are in it no references to the Introduction Historical and Critical, which precedes the didactic portion of the work. In the Table before-mentioned must be sought the general division of English grammar, and matters pertaining to praxis, to examination, and to the writing of exercises.
A.
A, lett., names itself
--its plur. --sounds properly its own --numb. of sounds pertaining to, orthoëpists differ concerning --diphthongs beginning with, --triphth. do. --its true sound to be carefully preserved at end of words, A, as prep, or prefix --before part, in ing. A and an, in Gr. derivatives. A or an, art., see An, A
Abbreviations, frequent in writt. lang.
--rule of punct. for. C, M, D, &c., as numerals, see Letters. Needless abbreviations, to be avoided
Able, ible, class of adjectives in, numerous in Eng.; difficulty with resp. to the prop. form and signif. of; to what able most properly
belongs
--application of able to nouns, its propriety doubtf. --Able or ible, prop. application of, how far determined from Lat.
etymol.
--Able and ible, words of the same meaning in, how formed from
different roots,
About, with infin., as substitute for Lat. fut. part, in rus --About, with of preced., ("OF ABOUT one hundred feet") --About, derivat. of, from Sax.
Abrupt transitions in the Bible
Absolute, when, and in what case, a noun or a pron. is put --Absol., case, defect of the common rule for
--in how many ways the nom. case is put
--nom. case put, with part., to what often equivalent; what part.
frequently understood after nouns put
--case, its existence denied by what authors
--words put, punct. of,
Abstract numbers, synt. of the phraseology used in speaking of, ("Twice two IS four," or "Twice two ARE four")
Absurd or incompatible expressions, to be avoided
Absurdities of expression, Crit. N. concerning
Acatalectic, when a line is said to be
Accent and quantity, critical observations on
Accent, difficulty with respect to the import of the word
--various definitions of, cited --Accent, confounded by some with emphasis --defined, as commonly understood --chief or primary and secondary --Accent, by what regulated --compared with emphasis --as affected by do. --is distinct from quantity --as understood by DR. JOH. --SHERID. teachings concerning; mostly adopted by MURR. --what lett. of a word receives the mark of --stress on a monosyl. more properly emphasis than --Accents, more than one on a word --DR. ADAM'S view of
Accentuation, modern, of Gr. and Lat. words, by what regulated; SANCTIUS'S rule for, new vers. of
According to, as to, resolved. Accordingly, whether may be said for the questionable according
Accusative before infin., in Lat. and Gr., of what reckoned the subject
--whether the construc. can in general be imitated in Eng. --who adopt the Lat. doctrine of --what our nearest approach to the Lat. construc. of
Active, in reference to verbs, in what sense may be used
Active-transitive verb, defined --Act.-trans. verbs gov. obj. case
--place of agent and object in respect to --Act.-trans. verb,
or part., has some noun or pron. for its object
--with two words in appos. ("Proclaim THEE KING,") --with do., neither in appos. nor connected by conjunc., ("I paid HIM the MONEY,") --with redund. me, thee, you
--should not be used without an object
--should not assume a governm. incompatible with its signif.
Active-intransitive verb, defined --Act.-intrans. verb, with prep. and its object, put in the pass.
form
--in pass. form with neut. signif. ("I AM COME,")
--should not be used transitively
Addison, undeservedly criticised by BLAIR, for his frequent use of that, as a relative
Addition, enumeration, of numbers, by what number of the verb to be expressed
Address, ordinary fashion of, in Eng., the plur. numb. --has introduced the anomal. compound yourself --Address, direct, nom. absol. by --terms of, your Majesty, your Highness, &c., in what construc. used
--general usage of, in Fr.; in Span., Portug., or Germ.
ADJECTIVES, Etymol. of
--Classes of, named and defined
--Modifications of
--Comparison of, reg.; by adverbs; irreg.
--Adjectives in able and ible, (see Able, Ible.) --Adjectives, number of, in Eng.
--how have been otherwise called
--how distinguished from nouns
--other parts of speech may become
--MURR., on nouns assuming the nature of
--whether nouns plur. can assume the character of
--Adjectives that cannot be compared
--that are compared by means of adverbs
--(See Comparison, Comparative Deg., and Superlative Deg.) --Adjectives requiring the article the
--denoting place or situation, comparison of
--become adverbs
--use of, for adv., improper
--with prep., ellipt., equivalent to adv.
--poet., for nouns
--do., for adverbs
--Adjectives, Synt. of
--do., in what consists
--to what relate
--substituted ellipt. for their abstr. nouns
--relate to nouns or pronouns understood
--used with def. art., ellipt., as nouns
--two or more before a noun, order of
--two, joined by hyphens
--denoting unity or plurality, how agree with their nouns
--connected, position of
--differing in numb., connected without repetition of noun ("ONE or more letters,") --much, little, &c., preceded by too, how, &c., taken substantively --Adjectives, punct. of
--derivation of, from nouns, from adjectives, &c.
--poet. peculiarities in respect to
--Adjective, taken abstractly with infin. or part.
--following a finite verb, without a noun
--do. an infin. or a part.
--position of, in Eng.
--when may either precede or follow its noun
--Whether adj. or adv. is required, how determined --Adjective, one superadded to an other, without conjunc., position
of
--when the figure of, affects the sense, what to be done
--should not be represented by a pronoun
--ellipsis of, shown
Adjectives, common, probable numb. of, in Eng.
--enumeration of, according to their endings
Adjectives, compound, analogies of their formation, traced
--nouns derived from, generally disapproved
Adjectives, numeral, kinds of, named --Cardinal numb. and its corresponding numeral, what denote --Construction and figure of the numerals
Adjectives, participial, what words to be referred to the class of
--cannot be construed to govern obj. case
Adjectives, pronominal, list of
--which, sometimes used adverbially --which, sometimes used partitively, appar. as nouns --without nouns expressed, how parsed --distribution of, by CHURCH See Other, &c.
Adjectives, proper, peculiarities of, considered
--rule for initial capital in
Adjuncts of nominative in the agreement of a verb
Admitting, allowing, &c., appar. independent, to what may relate
ADVERBS, Etymol. of
--Adverb, defined --Adverbs, serve to abbreviate expression
--other classes of words sometimes take the nature of
--appar. take the nat. of other parts of speech
--how distinguished from adjectives
--Classes of, named and defined
--proper classification of, by what indicated
--of time, place, and manner, with what connected; of degree, do.
--conjunctive (see Conjunctive Adverb:)
--Modifications of
--number of, in Eng.
--Whether adverb or adjective required, how determined --Adverbs, Synt. of
--in what do. consists
--to what relate
--Adverb before a prep. ("CONSIDERABLY beyond,") --Adverbs, whether sometimes qualify nouns
--of participles which become nouns, how managed
--above, then, &c., as relating directly to a noun, how parsed --Adverbs, of degree, to what adjectives not applicable
--direct use of, for pronouns, ineleg
ant
--position of
--needless use of, for adjectives
--hither, &c., for here, &c., with verb of motion --hence, &c., with from prefixed --when, &c., not to follow is in a definition ("Concord is WHEN,"
&c.,)
--ever and never, to be carefully distinguished --in ly, when preferable to other forms --Adverb, appar. made object of a prep. ("At ONCE,") --emphatic, with verb of self-motion suppressed ("I'll HENCE,") --Adverb HOW, misuse of ("He said HOW," &c.,)
--NO, not to be used in reference to a verb or a part.
--Adverbial form or character, words of, how parsed --Adverbs, punct. of --Adverb, ellips. of, shown --Adverbs, derivation of,
--many common Eng., of Anglo-Sax. origin
--poet. peculiarities in the use of
--peculiar use of those of two syllables in ly, by MILT. and his
contemporaries
--Adverbial phrase, a needless and improper designation in analysis
Affectation of fine writing, PREC. against
Ago and since, difference between
AGREEMENT, of words, defined
--with what synonymous
--Agreement, how many of the parts of speech in Eng., incapable of;
none necessary between words unrelated
--as differing from relation
--of words in the same construc., not easy to determine
--rules of, as applied to articles, impertinent
--Agreements, syntactical, in Eng., specified --Agreement, general principles of
--figurative, of pronouns with antecedents
Ah, sometimes departs from usage
Alexandrine verse, description of
Alias, for the equivocal or, use of, in judicial proceedings
All, when may be reckoned a noun
Allegory, defined --Allegory includes most parables of Script., and some fables
Alphabet, Eng., names and plur. numb. of the letters
--Hebrew, names and characters of, given,
--Greek, do.
--Latin, names of the letters of, scarcely known even to the learned;
account of its letters
--A perfect alphabet in Eng., what it would effect --Letters of the alphabet, when and how used in the sciences
Alphabetic writing, its advantage over the syllabic
Ambiguous, construc., with respect to the class of a word --do., with resp. to the case of a word --expressions, PREC. against
Amen, use and import of
Among and amongst, amid and amidst, different in sense and construc. from between and betwixt --incompatible with the distributive one an other
--derivation of, from Sax.
Amphibrach, defined
Amphimac, amphimacer, or Cretic, defined.
An, conjunc., obsolete for if ("Nay, AN thou 'lt mouthe," &c., SHAK.,)
--derivation of, from Sax.
An, a, art., one and the same
--preferable form before a particular sound
--A or an before genus
--how commonly limits the sense
--belongs to sing. numb. only
--with adjective of numb.
--its effect upon proper and common nouns
--is without agreem.
--Whether an is from a or a from an --An, a, origin of
--of proportion
--with numerals
--by what definitives superseded
--implies unity; sometimes precedes collective noun conveying the idea
of plurality
--present usage of, how differs from that of ancient writers
--use of, before humble, and its compounds and derivatives
--erroneous use of, as relating to a plural
--not to be used for the, to denote emphat. a whole kind
Analysis, "to analyze a sentence," what --Analysis of sentences shown in five different methods; which method
BROWN calls "the best and most thorough" --Analysis, notices of the different methods of --importance of, in teaching grammar; the truest method of, parsing
Anapest, defined
Anapestic verse, treated
--what syll. of, has stress; first foot of, how may be varied --what variation of, produces composite verse --whether a surplus syll. in, may compensate for a deficient one --what number of syllables in the longest measure of --Anapestic verse shown in its four measures --Anapestic, measures, why few --poetry, pieces in general short --(instance of a long piece, L. HUNT'S "Feast of the Poets,")
And, discriminated from or --when preferable to with, or, or nor --whether emphatic of word or phrase following it ("Part pays, AND justly;" &c., POPE,)
--derivation of, from Sax.
Anglo-Saxon dialect, and accessions thereto, as forming the modern Eng. lang.
An other, see Other
Antecedent, proper sense of the term
--sometimes placed after its pronoun --sometimes doubly restricted --of pron., applied figuratively --sing., with the adj. many, and a plur. pron.
--suppressed
--Antecedents of different persons, numbers, and genders,
disjunctively connected, how represented
--joint, agreem. of pron. in ellipt. construct. of
Antibacchy, or hypobacchy, defined
Antiquated words and modes of expression, more frequent in poetry than in prose
Antithesis, defined
Aorist, or indefinite, may be applied to imperf. tense pot. and subjunc.
Aphæresis, defined
Apocope, defined
Apophasis, or paralipsis, explained
Apostrophe, mark, what denotes; for what sometimes used --at what period introduced into the poss. case Apostrophe, figure,
defined
Apposition, Synt.
--agreement between words in
--Apposition, what, and from whom received this name --different from same cases put after verbs and participles not trans.; false teachings of MURR. et al. hereon --the rule for, to which apposed term applied; whether words in,
should be parsed separately
--common rule and definition of, wherein faulty
--which word of, the explanatory term; when explan. word placed first
--in what case of, either word may be taken as the explan. term,
--why two possessive words cannot be in
--two or more nouns in, where sign of possession put
--whether compat. with, to supply relative and verb between the apposed
words
--Apposition, appar., of noun without poss. sign, with pron. possess. ("YOUR success as an INSTRUCTER,") --noun or pron. emphat. repeated ("Cisterns, broken CISTERNS," &c.,)
--appar., of a noun to a sentence
--of words differing in numb. ("Go YE every MAN,") --of proper nouns with appellatives ("The river THAMES,")
--act. verb followed by two words in
--whether requires any other agreem. than that of cases
--words in, punct. of
--of a common with a prop. name, use of capital lett.
Archaism, what
Aristotle, division of the Greek letters
--what neoterics wiser than; how considers the compounding or
non-compounding of terms
Arithmetical numbers, relation of the terms in
ARRANGEMENT of words, term defined
--Arrang. of words, of what importance in synt.; whether it affects
the method of parsing words
ARTICLES, Etymol. of
--Article, defined --Article, common noun without; Eng. nouns without, taken
indefinitely partitive
--words of mere being, used without --Articles, how often inserted
--needless, to be omitted
--Classes of, named and defined
--Modificat. (an short, to a, the only,) --Articles, the frequent use of; freq. misapplication of
--to be distinguished from adjectives, and from each other
--appar. used for adverbs
--Article, Eng., its demonstrative character --do., compared with the Gr. def. art.; no rule for agreement of,
appropriate in Eng.
--use of, before names of rivers
--Articles, Synt. of
--to what RELATE
--Article, with the poss. and its governing noun, only one, used
--one noun admits of one, only; before an adj., relates to a noun
understood
--why not repeated, as in Fr., before every noun of a series; why the
omission of, cannot constitute a proper ellips.
--position of, with respect to its noun; ditto, with respect to an adj.
and noun
--relative position of, and adj., not a matter of indifference
--excluded by certain pronom. adjectives; what ones precede it; its
position in respect to an adj. of quality, limited by too, so, as, or how --position of, when an adj. is preceded by another adv. than too, so, as, or how
--do., when an adj. follows its noun
--whether the insertion or the omission of, can greatly affect the
import of a sentence
--Article, repetition of, with nouns connected
--do. with adjectives connected, and, oppos.
--added to each of two or more nouns sing., or a plural put ("THE
nominative and THE objective CASE," or "THE nominative and objective CASES,")
--use of, in special correspondence of phrases
--do., in correspondence peculiar
--do., in a series of terms
--erroneous use of, before the species, for THE; do., when the species is said to be of the genus ("A JAY is a sort of A
BIRD,")
--not used before names of the virtues, vices, &c., before limited
terms, and before nouns of definite signif.
--do. before titles or names mentioned merely as such
--do. before a part. not taken as a noun
--insertion or omission of, with respect to a comparison or an
alternation made with two nouns
--required in the construc. which converts a part. into a verbal noun
--Articles, what the false synt. of, includes --Ellips. of article, shown --Articles, derivation of --frequently omitted by the poets See also Definite Article, and An, A
Articulate or elementary sound, nature of
Articulation, as defined by COMST.; do. by BOLLES --Articulation, how differs from pronunciation
--the principles of, what they constitute
--a good one, what, in the view of COMST.; do., in what consists,
according to SHERID.; do. importance of; do., how delivers words
As, as subject or object of a verb, its CLASS
--with a clause or sentence as anteced.,
do. As, as relative,
WEBST. absurd explanation of; CHAND. do.; BULL. denial
--to what construc. limited
--peculiarities with respect to position
--declined
--derivation of, from Teuton., DR. JOH.
--As follow, as follows, &c., construction of; MURR., himself
perplexed by TOOKE and CAMPB., delivers dubious instructions
concerning
--Opinion of NIX. and CROMB. concerning. As, as a conjunc., uniting
words in appos.
--between adj. or part. and its noun ("Actions AS such") --with ellips. of latter term of comparison ("For such AS HE") --As and than, character and import of
--words connected by, generally put in the same case
--As
--as; as
--so; so (preceded by a negative,)
--as; so
--as (with an infin. following;) correspondents
Asking and exclaiming, simple and appropriate names for the marks of, desirable
Aspirates, see Semivowels
Asterisk, use of. Asterism, do.
Ate, particular words ending in, peculiarities of
Auxiliary, defined
--Auxiliary, form of a verb, when preferable to the simp. --verbs, are mostly defective --do., are needful in the conjug. of English verbs --do., inflection of, shown --Auxiliaries used as expletives --Auxiliary, poet. placed after verb
Averse, aversion, whether to be construed with from or to
Avoiding, verbs of, with part. in stead of infin.
Awkwardness, literary, Crit. N. censuring
Ay, I, assentive adv. --Ay, sometimes improp. written for ah
B.
B, its name and plur. number --its sound --in what situations silent
Bacchy, described
BE, how varied
--CONJUGATED, affirmat.
--Use of the form be for the pres. indic. --Be, ellips. of the infin. often needlessly supposed by ALLEN et al. --whether it should be inserted after the verb make --Is, contracted, giving its nom. the same form as that of the poss. case ("A WIT'S a feather," &c., POPE)
Become, &c., whether they demand the auxiliary am or have
Besides, prep., in what cases proper to be used after else or other, in lieu of than
Between, cannot refer to more than two things --Between or betwixt, how differs in use from among or amongst --Between, betwixt, derivation of, from Sax.
Bible, the Holy, application of the name
--what is shown by Italics in the text of --quotations in, how indicated --abrupt transitions in --its general accuracy of lang. --in the lang. of, ye and you, in what constructions not found
Bid, as commanding, or as promising, its construction with the infin.
Blair, Dr., unjustly censures Addison's frequent use of that, as a relative
Blank verse, as distinguished from rhyme
Blunders, as readily copied, as originated, by makers of school-books --literary, Crit. N. concerning
Bombast, as opposed to purity, PREC. against Books, mentioned by name, rule for capitals
Both, as conjunc., corresponding to and
--as adj. --derivation of, acc. to DR. MURR.
Brace, its purpose
Breve, or stenotone, for what used
Brevity of expression, sought in the ordinary business of life
Brokenness, or hitching, as a fault of style, PREC. censuring
But, save, as well as, construc. of two nouns connected by --But, how has acquired the signif. of only --in ambiguous construc. ("There cannot be BUT one," &c., KAMES) --as used for that, contrary to its import
--derivation of, from Sax.
--But and save, whether they ever govern the obj. case as
prepositions
--Cannot but, construc. and signif. of --Not but, to what equivalent, and the class of but
C.
C, name and plur. numb. of
--sounds of --where silent --with cedilla placed under (ç) --written for a number --Ch, sounds of --Arch, sound of, before a vowel, and before a conson. --Ck, final, for double c
Cadence, explained
--faulty, precept against, by RIPP. --MURR. direction concerning
Cadmus, carried the Phoenician alphabet into Greece
Cæsura, signif. and application of --Cæsural or divisional pause; demi-cæsuras, or minor rests; (see Pauses)
Can, verb, varied
--derivation and signif. of --Can not and cannot, with what distinction used --Cannot, with a verb of avoiding, or with BUT --Can, could, would, as principal verbs, by poet. use
Capital letters, capitals, for what used; how marked for the printer, in
manuscript
--what things are exhibited wholly in, --Rules for the use of, --use of, in comp. prop, names, --needless, --lavish use of, its effect, --discrepancies with respect to, abound in books.
Cardinal numeral, distinguished from its corresponding ordinal, --should follow the ordinal, in a specification of a part of a series, ("The first TWO,").
Caret, in what used, and for what purpose.
Cases, in grammar, what,
--named and defined,
--nom. and obj., alike in form, how distinguished,
--on what founded, and to what parts of speech belong.
--(See Nominative Case, &c.) --Cases, whether infinitives, participles, &c., can take the nature
of,
--what is the proper number of, to be assigned to Eng. nouns,
--what authorities for the true doctrine of three,
--discordant doctrine of sundry grammarians concerning the numb, of,
--WEBST. and MURR. opposite instructions concerning do.
--Cases, whether personal pronouns have two, only,
--rules for the construc. of,
--whether a noun may be in two, at once,
--whether Eng. verbs govern two,
--whether in Eng., as in Lat., when a verb governs two, the pass.
retains the latter case.
--Cases, same, (see Same Cases.) --Cases, what kinds of words take different, after them. --Case of noun or pron. after part. governed by prep., whether
undetermined; err. of SANB. and BULL. hereon expos.; GREE. false
teaching, do.,
--doubtful, after participles, in what kind of examples found; canon
concerning do.
Case, technical term with printers, ("Letters of the lower case.")
Catachresis, how commonly explained, and what sort of fig.
Catalectic, when a measure is said to be.
Cedilla, from whom borrowed, and how applied.
Change, of numb. in the second pers., ineleg.,
--of the connective of two nominatives appar. requiring a plur. verb,
canon concerning.
--Changing the scene, or deserting the principal subj., in a sent.,
PREC. against.
Chaucer's imperfect measures, DRYDEN'S remarks on.
Cherokee alphabet, some account of.
Cherubim and seraphim, Heb. plurals, sometimes mistaken for singulars.
Chief terms, or principal parts, of a verb, necessary to be first ascertained.
--Chief words may be distinguished by capitals.
Circumflex, inflection, (see Inflection,)
--mark, use of.
Classes under the parts of speech, what meant by.
Classification of words, explanations to assist beginners in making,
--DR. WILSON'S observations on.
Clause, see Member.
Climax, defined.
Cognomination, relation of the article, in instances of, ("Alexander the Great").
Collective noun, defined. --Collective nouns, forms of, sing. and plur.; how understood,
--gend. of, how determined,
--by what relative represented.
--Collec. noun, represented by plur. pron.,
--in what two ways may be taken, and with what accord of pron.; the
plur. construc. of, under what fig. of synt. ranked by the old
grammarians,
--whether with a sing. definitive, admits a plur. verb or pronoun.
--Collec. nouns generally admit of plur. form. --Collect. noun, represented by sing. pron. neut.,
--uniformity of numb. to be preserved in words constructed with,
--agreem. of verb with,
--how determined whether it conveys the idea of plurality or not,
--strictures on the rules of ADAM, LOWTH, et. al., concerning,
--NIX. notion of the construc. of verb and.
--Coll. nouns, partitive of plur., construc. of,
--as expressing collections of persons, or coll. of things, which most
often taken plurally,
--when not plur. in form, whether it admits of plur. adj. before it.
Colon, from what takes its name,
--for what used,
--in what year adopted in England,
--its utility maintained against some objectors,
--Rules for the use of,
--used by some between numb. of chap. and that of verse, in quotations
from the Bible.
Comma, from what takes its name,
--what denotes, --less common in Germ. than in Eng., --its ancient form, --Rules for the use of, --use of, in a series of words.
Commanding, desiring, expecting, &c., verbs of, to what actions or events, refer.
Commandments, the ten, how expressed as to forms of verb,
--by what points divided in books, --example of, versified in iamb. hexameter, by DR. WATTS.
Common gender, unnecessary and improper term in Eng. gram.
Common noun, defined,
--when admits of no art.,
--with def. art. sometimes becomes proper,
--by personif. often do.
--Common nouns include the classes, collective, abstract, and verbal. --Common nouns, their nature and numerical distribution, as
distinguished from proper.
Comparative degree, defined. --Compar. degree, why BROWN presents a new definit. of, in place of
his former
one,
--true nature of --whether always required in a comparison of two objects --with what construc. proper in exclusive comparisons, canon of BROWN --Comparatives, certain, not construed with the conjunc. than --double, how to be considered and treated --Comparative terminations, to what adjectives not to be applied --Compar. degree in Gr. and in Lat., construc. of --poet. connected to the positive
Comparison, defined --Comparison, degrees of, named and defined
--what adjectives admit not of
--CHURCH. on the different, (and BROWN on CHURCH.)
--character of BROWN'S definitions of; do. of those of MURR. et al.,
exhibited
--MURR. definitions of, criticised
--relative nature of
--Comparison, regular
--to what adjectives applicable
--when preferable to the comparison by adverbs
--Comparison, HARR. on the degrees of; the positive a degree --(in oppos. to HARR. et al.) --Comparison of equality, what; sometimes involves solec., ("Nothing SO uncertain AS,") --Comparison of equality and of ineq., canon on --Comparison, adaptation of the terms of, to the deg. to be expressed
--belongs chiefly to comm. adjectives
--Comparis., irregular --Comparis., whether to be mentioned in parsing adverbs
--inclusive, and exclusive
--Comparisons, extra, their impropriety --Crit. N. on, See also Comparative Degree, and Superlative Degree.
Comparison or contrast of things, the resemblance or opposition how rendered more striking
Complex prepositions, how may be formed
Composite orders of verse, what uniformity of construc. they require --Composite verse
--description of; why requires rhythm --kinds of, unlimited; which preferable --liable to doubtful scansion
Composition, the frequent practice of, necessary, in order to acquire a good style, Composition of language, two kinds of
Compound or progressive form of verb, how made
--exemplified in the verb READ, conjugated, what verbs do not admit of;
what it implies
--verbs of, having a pass. signif.
Compound word, defined, Compounds, permanent, consolidated; temporary, formed by hyphen
--Comp. words, not to be needlessly broken
--two or more, not to be split
--when to be written with hyphen; when without it
--Compounding of words, unsettled usage respecting; manner of, in
Lat. and Gr.; arbitrary practice of, in Eng., its effect
--does not necessarily preclude their separate use
--propriety of, sometimes difficult to decide
--Compounds, orthog. of --Compounding the words of a reg. phrase, its impropriety --Compound adjectives, see Adjectives, Compound.
Concord, (see Agreement.) --Concords and governments, examples of false ones from the
grammarians --in Lat., diversely enumerated by the Lat. grammarians
Concrete terms for abstract qualities, poet. use of
Confusion of senses, in use of pron., to be avoided
Conjugation of a verb, defined
--what some teachers choose to understand by --Conjugating a verb, four ways of, named --Conjugation of an Eng. verb, what the simplest form of --Conjug. of verbs, shown in five Examples --(See also Compound or Progressive, &c.) --Conjugat. negative, how made, interrogative, do. --interrog. and negative, do.
CONJUNCTIONS, Etymol. of
--Conjunction, defined --Conjunctions, how differ from other connectives
--nature and office of; R. F. MOTT quot.
--nature of the connexions made by
--how many in common use
--how parsed
--as "connecting the same moods, &c.," strictures on the doctrine of
MURR. et al., concerning --Conjunctions, classes of, named and defined --(See Copulative Conjunction, Disjunc. Conj., and Corresp. Conjunc.)
--Conjunctions, List of
--appar. used as adverbs
--peculiar phrases having the force of
--importance of, as copulative or as disjunctive, to be carefully
observed
--Conjunctions, Synt. of --do., in what consists, (MURR. et al. teaching erron.)
--what connect
--declinable words connected by, why in the same case
--power and position of those that connect sentences or clauses
--absurd and contradictory notions concerning the office of, by LENN.,
BULL., et al.
--two or three coming together, how parsed
--Conjunction, followed by a phrase, and not a whole member
--connecting two terms to one
--do. two terms the same in kind or quality
--Conjunctions, to be used with due regard to import and idiom
--punct. of
--ellips. of, shown
--derivation of
--are mostly of Anglo-Sax. origin
--H. TOOKE'S derivations of, given
--poet. usage of or --or, and nor --nor
Conjunctive adverbs, what office perform; what classes of words embrace
--often relate equally to two verbs in different clauses --list of --whence, whither, &c., sometimes partake of the nature of pronouns
Connected terms, two, limited by a third, what both must be
--should be the same in kind or quality. Connected adjectives, how should be placed. Connective words, or connectives, kinds of, named --do., how may be distinguished
Consonants, divisions and subdivisions of --properties of, as sharp, flat, labial, &c.
Construing, whether differs from parsing
Continuance of action, see Compound or Progressive
Contractions, in the orthog. and the pronunciation of words
--ocular, in printing poetry, not important
Correlatives, combinations of, ("Father's son,") how to be regarded
Corresponding, or corresponsive conjunctions, in what manner used
--named and exemplified in their several pairs --nature of the terms standing in the relat. of --the former of two, how parsed --CHURCH. canon on the use of --Or --or, and nor --nor, by poet. usage Crotchets, or brackets, how used --confused and inaccurate teaching of WEBST. et al., concerning
Cum with an ablative, Lat., ("Dux CUM aliquibus," &c.,) the construc. imitated in Eng.
--canon on do.
Curves, or marks of parenthesis
--have been in use for centuries --the use of, not to be discarded --confused teaching of WEBST. et al., respecting do. --what used to distinguish --clause enclosed by, how to be uttered; pause of do. --Rules for the application of
Customary actions require to be expressed by indic. pres.
D.
D, name and plur. numb.
--sounds of --written for a number
Dactyl, defined
Dactylic verse
--stress, on what syll. laid; what rhyme it generally forms --is not very common; seldom pure and regular --shown in its eight measures --has been but little noticed by prosodists and grammarians --misconceived and misrepresented Rev. D. BLAIR
Dare, construc. with infin. foll.
--Use of the form DARE for the third pers. sing.
Dash, the mark, explanation of --LOWTH et al. make no mention of
--Rules for the application of --Dash, needless, how to be treated --between quotation and name of the author --applied to side-title --used to signify omission
Dates, ordinarily abbreviated; how best written
--objectives in, without their prepositions
Dative case, faulty relic, in Eng., of old Sax., ("It ascends ME into," &c., SHAK.)
Days of the week, names of, to be reckoned prop. names, and written with capital
Deaf and dumb --The deaf and dumb, to whom the letters represent no sounds, learn
to read and write; what inferred herefrom
Defective verb, what verb so called
--which tenses of, wanting --Defective verbs, whether they should be reckoned a distinct class --may, can, must, and shall, not to be referred to the class of --will, beware, &c., construc. and import of explained --Defec. verbs, List of
Definite article, defined --Definite art., its demonstrative character
--used before names of rivers
--do. by way of eminence
--no rule of agreem. for, in Eng.
--prefixed as an adv., to comparatives and superlatives
--repeated before every term in a series of adjectives used ellipt. as
nouns
--used for a poss. pron., ("Full in THE face")
--position with respect to its noun
--required before antecedent to a restricted relative. See also The
Definition, defined --A perfect definition, what --Definitions, needful qualities of certain, in gram.
--bad, peculiar vice of --Crit. N. on
Definitives, what, in Eng., and how to be classed
--example to show what is meant by --Definitive word required before antecedent to restricted relative
Degrees of comparison, see Comparison
Deity, names of, use of capitals in
--in all languages, masc.; direct names of, do.. The sing. numb,
universally employed in reference to the Supreme Being
Demonstratives, from the class, pronominal adjectives
Derivation, as a topic of gram., what explains
--importance of --a knowledge of what languages will throw light on the subject of Eng.
Desiring, verbs of; see Commanding
Desisting, verbs of; with part., in stead of infin.
Despauter, (Despauterius Joannes,) grammarian, when died
--his Lat. Gram.
--his remark on the origin of using plur. pron. of second pers. for
sing.
--gives the rule that the verb governs the nominative before it
Diæresis, or dialysis, mark, place and use of
--explained
Diesis, or double dagger, for what purpose
used. Dimeter, line, iambic, examples of --trochaic, do. --anapæstic, do. --dactylic, do.
Diphthong, defined --Diphthongs, distinction of
--enumeration and specification of the Eng.
Discourse, or narration, its nature and requirements
Disjunctive conjunction, defined --Disjunctives, List of --Disjunctive OR, see Or
Distance, see Time, &c.
Distribution, of words into classes, a matter of some difficulty; explanations concerning, for learners
--of verbs in Lat., grammarians have disputed respecting
Distributives, of the class pronominal adjectives --Distributive term sing. in apposit. with a plur.
Division, literary, see Literary Division
Do, verb, how varied:
--particular uses of --in what manner may be substituted for an other term
Double comparatives and double superlatives, how may be regarded; canon; (LATH. and CHILD)
Double negatives, see Negation, and Negatives
Doubling of the final consonant before additional syll.; not doubling, before do.
--Double letter retained --Doubling, certain letters incline to; others, do not
Doubtful case after a part., in what kind of examples found; the construc. to be avoided
Drink, verb, grammarians greatly at variance respecting the pret. and the perf. part. of
Dual number, found in Gr. and in Arab., what denotes
Duplication, see Doubling
Du Vivier, G., his Grammaire des Grammaires, and his Traité des Participes, a copious treatment of the Fr. participle
E.
E, (as A, O, I, and U,) self-naming: --how spoken and written --its plur. --sounds properly its own --final, mute, and to what belongs; exceptions --effect on preced. vowel, of e mute after a sing. conson., or after st, or th --diphthongs beginning with --triphthongs do.
Each, pronom. adj., always of the third pers. sing.; its agreements. Each other, see Other
Ecphoneme, or note of exclamation
--occasional introduction into the classics --diversely called by MURR. et al. --for what used, and of what a sign --Rules for the application of
Ecphonesis, defined
Either and neither, pronom. adjectives, relate to two only
--M. HARR. on the illegit. use of
--their numb. and pers.; what agreements they require, when they are
the leading words in their clauses
--derivation of, from the Sax.
Either
--or, neither --nor, corresponsives: --transposed, with repeated disjunction or negat.
Elegiac stanza, description of
Elementary sound, or elements of speech, defined. See Sounds
Ellipsis, figure defined
--either not defined by grammarians in general, or absurdly defined
--frequent in comp. sentences
--to be supplied in parsing
--supposed, may change the construc. without affecting the sense
--the principle of, as explaining several questionable but customary
expressions, ("Fair and softly GOES far") --MURR. on "THE ellipsis" --Ellipsis supplied, EXAMPLES of --Needless ellipses, the supposition of, to be avoided --Ellipses, faulty, as opposed to perspicuity, PREC. against. Ellipsis, or suppression, mark of, how figured, and what used to
denote
Elliptical construction of nouns, ("A horse, a horse," &c., SHAK.)
Elocution, defined
Else, other, &c., with than, in exclusive comparisons --Else or other, sometimes construed with besides --Else, derivation of
Emphasis, defined:
--comparative view of accent and --as connected with quantity, MURR. --as affecting accent --what the guide to a right. --Emphatic words, not to be multiplied
Enallage, defined
--signif. of the Gr. word --special application of the term --with what other terms synonymous --the most common forms of, in Eng. --examples of, how differ from solecisms --too much latitude was given to the fig. by Despauter, and by others
Enallixis, see Enallage
Ending of a sentence with an adv., a prep., or any inconsid. word or phrase, PREC. concerning
English Grammar, see Grammar
English language, some account of its origin
--its character --its simplicity and facility asserted by LOWTH --its chief defect, according to DR. JOH.
Enumeration of numbers, see Addition
Epicene nouns, see Generic Names Epithets, new compound, poets frequently form
Equivalence, the argument of, has often led into errors
Equivocal, or ambiguous construc. of cases, to be avoided
--of rel. pron., by misplacement
--of prep. with converted part., how amended
--of the word but, ("There cannot be BUT one," &c.)
-
-of words, leaving the classification doubtful, Crit. N. concerning
--Equiv., or ambig. expressions, as opposed to propriety, PREC.
against
Eroteme, its form in Greek
--derivation; fitness of the name --diversely called by MURR. et al. --its use --Rules for do. --its value as a sign of pause --retained by a quoted question
Erotesis, explained
Errors, incorrigible, Crit. N. concerning
ETYMOLOGY
--Etymol., of what treats
--when and how should be taught
--figures of, term defined; the principal do., named and defined --Etymology and meaning of words, HARRIS on the usefulness of
disquisitions into
Ever, contrac., e'er; so in comp. rel. pronouns --Ever a one, contrac. by the comm. people into e'er a one --Ever and never, opposite to each other in sense, yet freq.
confounded and misapplied; canon on the employment of --Ever so, (prop., everso,) signif. of --Ever so wisely, its propriety determined, against the false phraseology never so wisely --Ever, derivation of, from Sax.
Example, as used in teaching, meaning of --Examples, use of capitals in
Exception, noun, and except, verb, whether more properly followed by from or by to
Exclamation, note of, (see Ecphoneme) --Exclamation, nom. absolute by --the case of nouns used in
Exclusive and inclusive terms of a comparison
Exercise, in grammar, what
Expecting, &c., verbs of, see Commanding
Extended compositions, gradation of the parts in
F.
F, its name and plur. numb. --final in monosyllables, to be doubled --formation of the plur. of nouns in, and in ff --its sound
Fable, how may be defined
--What the term denotes in the Scriptures
Fall short of, make bold with, &c., how the adjective in such phrases is to be explained in parsing
False identification, (under synt. of SAME CASES,) Note exposing the error of
Falsities in sentences, Crit. N. directed against
Feel, its construc. with the infin.
Few and many, form and construc. of. Fewer, see Little
FIGURES, treated
--Figure, in gram., what --Figures, distinctive names of some; frequent occurrence of those of
rhetoric
--Figure of words, signif. of the term --Figure of words, Rules for
--suggestions additional to do.
--unsettled and variable usage in that which relates to
--Figure of orthog., what; what the principal figures of do. --Figure of etymol., what --Figures of etymol., the principal, named and defined --Figure of synt., what --Figures of synt., the principal, named and defined --Figure of rhet., what --Figures of rhet., why certain are called tropes
--on what mostly founded
--the principal, named and defined
--affect the agreem. of pronouns with their antecedents
--Figures, how many BROWN deems it needful to define and illustrate --Figures, definitions of sundry, in the lang. of authors, corrected, KEY. Figures, Arabic, in what cases pointed by some
Final f, l, or s, in spelling; other finals than, in do. --ck or c, use of --ll, to what confined --e of a primitive, when omitted; when retained --y of a prim. word before a terminat., how managed --ise or ize, which termination to be taken --Finals, what letters may assume the position of; what may not, and
why
Finite verbs, agreem. of, with subjects, a principle of Univ. Gram.
--Rules concerning --Fin. verb understood, punct. of First words, initial capital to --faulty practice of grammarians with respect to
Foot, poetic, see Poetic Feet
Foreign words or idioms, unnecessary use of, in opposition to purity
For, with all, as equivalent to although --For as much as, &c., having the nature of conjunctions --For that --For, with perf. part., ("FOR lost") --with ever --before TO and infin. --as introducing its object before an infin.. For, conj., because, from Sax.; anc. expressed for that
Forever, or for ever, its class
Former and latter, nature and applic. of Forms of letters, in type or character
--Forms OF VERBS, a knowledge of THE TRUE, nothing more important in gram. than Forsooth, signif. and use of
Friends, the Society of; their employment, in familiar discourse, of the sing. pron. of the second pers.
--generally neglect to compound their numeral names of the months and
days
--their misemployment of thee for thou
--their manner of speaking, different from the solemn style
--examples of their manner of forming the verb with the pron. thou;
their simplificat. of the verb
From, derivation of, from Sax. --From forth, from out, construc. of, explained --Off from, examp. of the use of
Full, in permanent compounds, how written; in temporary do., do. --compounds in, (spoonful, handful, &c.,) how pluralized
Future, contingency, how best expressed
Future tense, FIRST, how formed, and what expresses
--SECOND, do., do., and how varied
Futurity, often denoted by the infin., ("The world TO COME")
G.
G, its name and plur.
--its sounds --when silent --Gh, sounds of, and silence
Gardiner, W., his new analysis of the Eng. alphab., noticed
Genders, term defined --Genders, the diff., named and defined
--on what founded, and to what belong
--Gender, inconsistent views of, as given by many of the grammarians;
WELLS and MURR. criticised
--confounded with sex by some writers; others otherwise confuse the
matter
--Common gender, of the old grammarians, the term objectionable with
respect to Eng.
--Gender, how in many instances determined
--figuratively ascribed, how indicated
--denoted by he and she prefixed to nouns --denied by MURR. et al. to pronouns of the first and second persons --of pron., the preference of, when joint antecedents are of
different genders
General truths and customary actions, to be expressed by the indic. pres.
Generic names, sense and construc. of
"Genitives, double," discovered by our grammarians, the true explanation of all such
Gentile names, nature and construc. of
German language, form of its type
--use of the comma less freq. in, than in Eng.
Gerund, Lat., explanation of
--what form of an Eng. participle corresponds to
--"Gerund in English," how becomes "a substantive," according to DR.
ADAM et al., Gerundives, what
Giving, paying, procuring, &c., verbs of, with ellips. of to or for before the objective of the person
GOVERNMENT, of words, defined
--to what parts of speech has respect
--the rules of, whether to be applied to the governing or the governed
words
--do., how many in the best Lat. grammars; usual faults in the
distribution of these
--Governments in Eng. synt. how many
--false, examples of, cited from grammarians
Grecism, literal, in Eng., ("Before Abraham was, I AM") comp.
GRAMMAR, defined
--An English Grammar, what professes to be
--ENGLISH GRAMMAR, what in itself; what knowledge implies
--when worthy to be named a science
--Grammar, how to be taught, and its principles how made known
--the true principles of, in whose possession
--a rule of, what --Grammar, how divided; its parts, of what severally treat
--what it requires
--rightly learned, what ability it confers
--what many vain pretenders to, have shown by their works
--on questions of, the practice of authors should have more weight than
the dogmatism of grammarians. Grammars of different languages, how far must needs differ; strictures on those of PROF. BULL., A grammar designed for English, the chief end of. Grammatical doctrine, the
truth of, in what consists
Granting, supposing, &c., see Admitting
Grave accent, as opposed to acute --as preserving the vocality of e
Greek alphabet, characters of, shown and named
Guillemets, or quotation points, what words they distinguish
--how applied to a quotation within a quotation --not used in our common Bibles; the defect in what measure relieved
H.
H, its name and plur. numb.
--its sound --in what words silent --in what positions do. --an used formerly before all words beginning with
Hand, or index, use of
Handwriting, script letters in
Harmonical pauses, see Pauses
Have, verb, how varied
--derivation of; with perf. part., import of the tense --Had, with better, rather, &c., before the infin.
He and she, sometimes used as nouns
--as prefixed to nouns to denote gend. --whether to be connected by a hyphen to the nouns to which prefixed
Hear, with objective, and an infin. without to --with infin. alone, perhaps ellipt, ("I HAVE HEARD TELL") --Heard, verb, why irregular
--its pronunc.
Hebrew letters, some account of; names, characters, and significations of
--whether they are, or are not, all consonants, long a subject of
dispute
--The
Hebrew names for the months, were prop. nouns --Hebrew, what pointing adopted in
Hence, thence, whence, with from prefixed. "I'll HENCE," see Adverbs
Heptameter line, iambic, examples of --trochaic, do --dactylic, do.
Here, there, where, force of, when compounded with prepositions --with verb of motion, perh. allowable for hither, thither, whither. Hereof, thereof, whereof, placed after nouns, what to be called. Herein, therein, &c., their class and nature
Heroic verse, see Pentameter
Heterogeneous terms, in general, two such not to be connected by a conjunc.
Hexameter line, iambic, examples of --trochaic, do --dactylic, do.
Hissing sounds, concurrence of, in forming the poss. case, how avoided
Hold, noun, after lay, take, &c., whether preferably construed with of, on, or upon
Hoping, &c., verbs of, see Commanding
How, after nouns of manner, its nature --not to be used before that, or in stead of it
--derivation of, from Anglo-Sax.
Hyperbaton, explained
--its frequency in poetry; how should be used --is diff. from synchysis
Hyperbole, defined --Hyperboles, by what commonly expressed
Hypermeter, meaning of, in scansion
Hyphen, its uses
--present use in compound names --Rules for the insertion of, in compounds --signif. of the name --Hyphen, abuse of --CHURCH, on the use of, in comp. words --in the figure of an adj., with a change of the synt. and sense --necessary with a verbal noun and an adjunct --do. with comp. participles, converted
Hypobacchy, or antibacchy, defined
I.
I, lett., self-naming; its plur.
--its usual sounds --diphthongs beginning with; triphth. do., I, pron. with cap. lett., I, as written for a number. I, adv., see Ay
Iambic verse, treated --Iamb. verse, stress where laid in; effect of a short syll. added to
a line of --shown in its eight measures --is seldom pure through a long succession of lines --some of its diversifications shown. See also Dimeter, Trimeter, &c.
Iambus, or iamb, defined
Idea of unity, and of plurality, how formed
Identity of words, the principle of, considered --Identity, proper, RULE for, ("Same Cases.") Identification,
false, N. concerning
Idioms or peculiarities of expression, when to be approved or valued
If, the Biblical use of, to express an emphat. negation
--its derivation from Sax.
Ignorance, literary, Crit. N. concerning
Imagery, or Vision, explained
Imperative mood, defined --Imperat. mood, why so called; in what manner applied
--its one tense, and the import of do --its inflection shown in the verb LOVE, conjugated --what nominatives only it takes --use of, in the Gr. lang.; do., in Lat., Ital., Fr., and Span --may have all the persons and numbers --poet.
Imperfect tense, defined --Imperf. tense, the form, how far applicable to the Eng. tense so
called --in its simple form is the preterit --in the pot. and subj. moods, an aorist --of the indic. and the subj., how distinguished --of the sub., to express a mere supposition, with indef. time
Imperfect participle, or first part., defined
--its form
--The first part., has been variously called --why rightly termed imperfect participle
--for what forms of the Lat. gram., stands
--is applicable to time pres., past, or fut.; is not always active,
even when derived from an act. verb
--may be turned to a multiplicity of uses
--appar. put absolute, (Admitting, --Allowing, &c.)
--distinguished, with respect to governm., from a particip. noun
--as equivalent to infin. mood; heads of regular equivalence
--how compares with the Lat. gerund
--its nature and construc.
Impersonal verbs, so called, their peculiarity of use --called monopersonal by some
Impropriety of language, what embraces
In and into, difference between; nature of the relation expressed by each; derivation of, from Sax.
Inclusive and exclusive terms of a comparison
Incorrigible errors, Crit. N. concerning
Indefinite article, see An, A Indefinite pronouns, of the class pronom. adjectives
Independent, see Absolute
Index, or hand, use of
Indicative mood, defined --Indic. mood, why so called; its nature and use
--use of its pres. tense
--do. of its form of the pluperf. in lieu of the pot. pluperf.
--wherein differs characteristically from the subj.; the two moods
continually confounded by writers
--Indic. mood, format, and inflec. of its ten
ses shown in the verb
LOVE, conjug. --employed to express a conditional circumstance assumed as a fact
Inelegance of language, see Awkwardness.
Infinitive mood, defined --Infin. mood, so called in oppos. to the other moods --usually distinguished by the prep. to before it --its pres., the ROOT, or radical verb; what time it expresses --archaic form in en
--its two tenses shown in the verb LOVE, conjug.
--Synt. of
--Infin. mood, by what governed; (see To:)
--true construc. of, explained by the 18th Rule of the Synt.
--why simple of solution in Eng.; whether ever governed by a prep, in
Fr., Span., or Ital.
--whimsical account of, given by NIX.
--how expressed in the Anglo-Sax. of the 11th century
--why may not, as some grammarians teach, be | considered a noun
--DR. WILS. on the charac. and import of
--to what other terms may be connected
--what in its nature, and for what things chiefly may stand
--taken abstractly, as subject of finite verb
--Loose infinitives, improp. in precise language --Infin. mood, position of
--misplacement of, to be avoided
--distinction of voice in, often disregarded, ("You are to BLAME;")
hypercrit. teachings of SANB. and BLAIR hereon
--Infin., after bid, dare, &c., without TO --whether used with TO after have, help, and find --Infin., BY WHAT governed, often imposs. to say, according to the
instructions of MURR.
--Infinitives connected, governed by one preposition --Infinitive, ellipsis of, after to, whether to be approved
--sometimes doubtful whether transitive or intransitive
--in pause, or in remote dependence, punct. of
--poet. placing of
--Greek construc. of, in poetic use
Inflections, defined
--rising and falling, explained; do., as applied to questions
--notation of, in writing and printing
--the rising more numerous than the falling; predominance of the rising
in oral lang.; the falling, for what used, COMST.
--what kind of rules for, have been given by writers
--the rising and the falling, to be used with prop. discrimination;
what should determine the direction of
--Inflection, what constitutes the circumflex
Innovation extravagant, into the system of synt. or gram., a particular instance of, noticed
Inscriptions appear best in full capitals
Instead, what reckoned, and how best written
Intending, &c., verbs of, see Commanding.
Intensive nature of comparatives and superlatives, A. MURR.
Interrogative pronouns, defined
--what they severally demand --their use and construc. --in what differ from relatives --are always of the third pers. --declined --their place in a sentence --their construc. of cases, to what similar
Interrogative sentences, agreem. of verbs in
INTERJECTIONS, Etymol. of
--Interjection, defined
--derivation and signif. of the term; LOWTH'S error in describing the
interjections --Interjections, numb. of, in common use
--List of
--Interjections, the frequent use of, an indication of thoughtlessness; expressiveness of some interjections in earnest
utterance, &c.
--should be discriminatively used
--chief characteristics of; referred to the class of adverbs by the
Gr. grammarians
--significant words uttered as, ("Out! out!")
--appar. taken substantively
--Synt. of
--absolute construc. of
--have no construc. with cases, as in Lat. and Gr.
--appar., sometimes connected to other words by a prep., or by that
--place of
--punct. of
--ellips. of, shown
--derivation of
--frequency of, in poet. lang.
Inversion of terms, sometimes of advantage, in respect to strength and vivacity of expression.
Irony, figure explained
Is being, with a perf. part., or the subject of the UNCO-PASSIVE form of verbs, canvassed
Ise or ize, which of these terminations to be taken in forming derivatives under Deriv. of Verbs
Ish, termination, whether it may be accounted a degree of comparison
It. its chief use
--declined
--to what creatures may be applied
--put for the distance, ("How far do you call IT?" &c., PRIESTL.,)
--without definite reference to an anteced.
--as explet., and referring to something expressed afterwards; faulty
omission of, before verb, in such construc.
--had formerly no variation of cases
--its poss. form ITS, for of it, of recent origin, and not found in
the text of the common Bible
--wrongly excluded by some from the list of pers. pronouns:
--its derivation from Sax., traced
Italic letters, Italics, some account of
--for what purpose used --how denoted in preparing manuscripts
J.
J, its name and plur. numb.
--why never doubled --why never ends a word in Eng. --impropriety of dividing on the letter, in syllabication --sounds of,
Johnson, Dr. S., his authority in Eng. orthography
Joint nominatives, agreem. of verb with --whether words connected by with can be used as. Joint antecedents, agreem. of pron. with
--of different persons, agreem. of verb or pron. with, in ellipt.
construc.
Jumbling together of the active voice and the passive, the manner of some --Jumbling, senseless, Crit. N. censuring
K.
K, its name and plur.
--in general, not needed in words derived from the learned languages --its sounds --when silent --Two Kays standing together
Kind, sort, with these or those improp. preceding
L.
L, its name and plur. numb.
--of the class liquids --final, monosyllables ending in --final double, to what words peculiar --its sound; in what words silent --where doubled --written for a number
Labial letters, how articulated
Language, the primitive sense of the term, what embraced; signif. of do., as now used
--in opposition to some grammarians, BROWN confines the term to speech
and writing
--loose explanations of the word by certain slack thinkers; WEBST.
notion of
--SHERID. idea of; KIRKH. wild and contradictory teachings concerning
--Language, PROPRIETY of, in what consists; IMPROPRIETY of, what
embraces
--PRECISION of, in what consists; Precepts concerning its opposites
--Language, Eng., (see English Language) --Languages, uniform SERIES OF GRAMMARS for teaching the Eng., Lat.,
and Gr., that of DR. BULL., noticed
Lay, pay, and say, how written in the pret. and the perf. part.
Leading principles in the construc. of sentences, in what embraced in the Grammar
Least parts of language, as written, as spoken, &c., what constituents so called
Legal phraseology, in contrast with that of common life
Less, improper use of, for fewer, ("No LESS than three dictionaries," DR. WEBST.)
Lest, use of, for THAT, without due regard to its import, ("I feared LEST," &c.)
--derivation of, from Sax.
Let, verb, its construc, with an infin. following
LETTERS, in the Eng. alphabet, numb. of, and numb. of sounds which they represent
--a knowledge of, in what consists
--infinite variety in, yet the letters always THE SAME
--different sorts of types, or styles of, used in Eng.
--names of, in Eng.; do., sing, and plur.
--Classes of, named and defined
--powers of --the JUST POWERS of, (see Power)
--Forms of, and their distinctions, in the Eng. lang.
--different sorts of, to be kept distinct
--slanting strokes of the Roman, described
--Italic, chief use of --capital, employment of --small, do. --Letters, history of
--the names of, are words of a peculiar kind
--the names and powers of, not always identical
--general neglect of learning to write the names of, in Eng.
--importance of learning to write do.
--erron. teaching with respect to certain names of
--Letters of the Heb. alphabet given, with their names, and the
significations of do.
--of the Gr. alphabet, with their names
--of the Lat. alphab., their names nearly lost
--of do., as now printed
--Letters, the twenty-six, possible combinations and mutations of --of the alphab., read by their names, how taken --do., written for numbers, what their nature; omission of period
after such letters
--DAY'S account of do.
--Letters, the SOUNDS of, treated --Letters, the small, period of their adoption
--used for references
--Letter, definition of --Letter, the sound of, called its POWER; yet its power not necessarily identified with its sound --A letter, in what consists Like, near, nigh, appar., prepositions; why not placed by BROWN with the prep. Lily, W.,
grammarian, his arrangement of Lat. syntax
Lines, poetic, technical denominations of
Liquids, what letters so called
Literary division of a work, common order of, downwards, and throughout; but all literary works not thus divided. Literary blunders, Crit. N. concerning
--awkwardness, do. --ignorance, do. --silliness, do.
Little, lesser, less, different uses and import of --Little, much, &c., preceded by not, too, or other such adv., how
taken
--Less, improp. used as an adj. of number; does not signify fewer;
not to be used in the sense of do.
--Less, least, adv., to be parsed separately, in the comparison of
adjectives and adverbs
LOVE, verb active-trans., CONJUGATED affirmatively
--BE LOVED, pass., do. --LOVE, conjug. negatively --do., interrogatively --do., interrogatively and negatively
Low and provincial expressions, use of, as opp. to purity, PREC. against
Ly, most common terminal of Eng. adverbs; added to nouns to form adjectives
(I,) u; 1055, b; 1053, L:
--when adverbs ending in, are preferable to those of other forms.
M.
M, its name and plur. numb.,
--of the class liquids, --its sounds, --when silent, --as written for a number.
Macron, or macrotone, mark, its use.
Make, verb, whether to should be suppressed, and be, inserted, after, ("MAKE yourself BE heard," BLAIR,)
--its construc. with infin. following.
Man and woman, comp. nouns in, (man-servant, woman-servant, &c.,) how pluralized.
Many a, with noun sing. represented by a plur. pronoun.
Marks, or points, used in literary composition, the principal; occasional. See Punctuation.
May, verb, how varied,
--derivation and uses of.
Mean, means, use and construc. of.
Measure, &c., see Time. Measure, poetical, see Verse.
Melody or beauty of a sentence, words necessary to, rarely to be omitted.
Member, or clause, defined. --Memb. and clause, generally used as synonymous, are discriminated
by some, --Clause and phrase, confounded by some, --Members, simple, of a sent., punct. of, --complex, do., do., --Members of a sentence, arrangem. of, as affecting STRENGTH.
Metaphor, defined,
--what commonly understood to be, --agreem. of pron. with antecedent in cases of.
Methinks, explanation of; the lexicographers on the word.
Metonymy, defined, --Meton., on what founded,
--agreem. of pron. with its antecedent, in cases of.
Metres, more found in actual use, than those acknowledged in the ordinary schemes of prosody. Metre, see Verse.
Milton, MURR. proposed amendment of the "unintelligible" language of a certain passage of, criticised,
--double solec. in a pass, of, noticed,
--his poem, L'Allegro, what its versificat.; what the management of
the orders of its verse,
--do., Il Penseroso, what its extent and construction.
Miss or Misses, Mr. or Messrs., what the proper applicat. of, when name and title are to be used together, in a plur. sense.
Mistaken, to be, irregularity of the verb; its import as applied to persons, and as applied to things.
Mimesis, explained; droll examples of.
Minus, plus, versus, viâ, Lat., use of, in Eng., in partic. constructions.
Mixing of synt. with etymol., the manner of INGERS., KIRKH., et al., censured. Mixture of the forms of style, inelegance of.
Modifications, defined,
--sense of the term as employed by BROWN.
Moloss, defined.
Monometer, scarcely constitutes a line, yet is sometimes so placed. --Monometer line, iambic, examples of, --trochaic, do., --anapestic, do., --dactylic, an examp. of.
Monopersonal verbs, see Impersonal Verbs.
Monotone, what, and how produced in elocution.
Months and days, names of, appar. proper names, and require capitals,
--how best expressed in literary compositions.
Moods of a verb, term defined,
--the five, named and defined, --Mood, or MODE, the name. See Infinitive Mood, Indic. Mood, &c.
More and most, in ambiguous construction, ("Some people MORE than them," MURR.,)
--how parsed in comparisons of adjectives and adverbs.
Moses, in what characters, is supposed to have written.
Most, for almost, by vulgarism.
Motion, verbs of, with hither, &c., in stead of here.
Much, little, all, &c., as nouns, --preceded by not, too, or other such adv., --This much, in stead of thus much, DR. BLAIR.
Mulkey, W., strictures on his system of orthoëpy.
Multiplication, subject of the verb in, see Abstract Numbers.
Multiplicative numerals, as running on in a series; how written above decuple or tenfold.
Multitude, noun of, see Collective Noun.
Mute or silent, epithet applied to what letters. --Mutes, what so reckoned; of these, which imperfect. --Where a letter must be once mute.
My and mine, thy and thine, as duplicate forms of the poss. case, use of.
N.
N, its name and plur. numb.,
--of the class liquids, --its sounds, --in what position silent.
Name and title, see Proper Names.
Naming the letters of the alphab., importance of.
Narration, see Discourse.
Nasals, what consonants so called.
Near and nigh, see Like.
Need, as an uninflected third pers. sing. of the verb, --has perh. become an auxiliary of the pot. mood,
--to what tenses must be understood to belong, if to be recognized as
an auxil. of the pot. mood,
--that good writers sometimes inflect the verb, and someti
mes do not,
and that they sometimes use to after it, and sometimes do not, how
may be accounted for
--three authorized forms of expression, with respect to the verb. Needs, as an adv., its composition
Needless, mixing of characters in printing, bad effect of
--capitals; effect of --articles, to be omitted --ellipses, the supposition of, a common error among grammarians --use of participles for nouns, or nouns for participles --words, ineleg. --possessive or art. before a part., how corrected --periods, or other points, after certain numeral expressions --abbreviations, offend against taste --dashes inserted, how to be treated
Negation, expressed in the early Eng. by multiplied negatives; such manner of expression now obsolete and improper
--Effect on a negation, of two negatives in the same clause
Negatives, the comm. rule of the grammars, that "two negatives, in Eng., destroy each other, or &c.," whether a correct one
Neither, see Either
Neuter verb, defined --Neuter verbs, the active-trans. verbs are so called in most
grammars and dictionaries; the absurdity of this
--extent of this class of verbs; their existence in any lang. denied by
some grammarians
--Neut. verb BE, conjugated
--Neuter verbs, made from active-transitives, (am come, is gone,
&c.;) these called by some, "neuter passives"
--of passive form, (am grown, are flown, &c.,) as errors of
conjugat., or of synt.
--do., how may be distinguished from pass. verbs
--do., DR. PRIESTL. mistaken notions concerning their nature and
propriety
--Neut. verbs, and their participles, take the same case after as
before them
--Neuter verb between two nominatives, its agreem.
Nevertheless, its composition and class
No or none, pronom. adj. No, as negative adj., "remarkable ambiguity in the use of," noticed by PRIESTL., ("No laws are better than the English;") how the ambiguity may be avoided
--as a simple negation, its construc.
--as an adv. of deg., relating only to comparatives, ("NO more," --"NO better") --set before a noun, is an adj., corresponding to Lat. nullus --In the phrases, no longer, no more, no where, DR. JOH. appar.
suggests wrongly the class; its true class according to its several
relations
--No, or an other independent negative, repeated, its effect --No, adv., not to be used with reference to a verb or part.
--derivation of, from Anglo-Sax.
Nominative case, defined --Nom. case, how distinguished from the objective in nouns
--as subj. of a finite verb
--different ways of using
--Nominative and verb, usual position of, and when varied --Nom. case and object., at the same time, noun placed in the
relation of
--Nom. following a verb or part, with what must accord in signif. See also Subject, &c.
Nominative sentences, examples of what MURR. erron. so terms; the prop. construc. shown
Nor, see Or.
Not, its place in negative questions
--how spoken in grave discourse, and how ordinarily
--vulg. contractions of, with certain verbs
--used with other negatives
--do. with nor (in stead of or) following, whether correctly, or
not
--derivation of, from Anglo-Sax. Not but, how resolved. Not only, not merely, to what are correspondents
Notwithstanding, import and construc. of; misunderstood by DR. WEBST.
--formation and signif. of
NOUNS, Etymol. of
--Noun, defined --Nouns, Classes of, named and defined --Modifications of, named --Persons of, named and defined; (see Persons) --Numbers of, do.; (see Plural Number) --Genders of, do.; (see Genders) --Cases of, do.; (see Cases) --Declension of --Nouns, number of, in Eng. --the sense of, how made indefinitely partitive --examples of words commonly belonging to other classes, used as --collective, abstract, and verbal or participial, included among common nouns; (see Collective Noun, and Particip. Noun) --proper, (see Proper Names) --Nouns, Synt. of --Noun, why may not be put in the relation of two cases at once --taken figuratively sing. for literally plur. --required to be repeated, or inserted, in stead of a pronoun --ellips. of, shown --Nouns of time, measure, distance, &c., (see Time) --Nouns, derivation of, from nouns, adjectives, verbs, or participles --poet. peculiarities of
Numbers, the distinction of, to what belongs, and how applied. (See Plural Number.) Numbers, cardinal, ordinal, &c., (see Cardinal Numbers, &c.) --Numbers, abstract, expressions of multiplication in, ("Twice one IS two," --"Twice two ARE four," &c.,) seven different opinions of
grammarians respecting, examined by BROWN; who determines the prop.
forms of expression
--Numbers, expressed by letters, how to be considered; whether to be
marked by the period
--combined arithmetical, one adjective relating to an other
Numerals, numeral adjectives, see Adjectives, Numeral. Numerical figures used for references
O.
O, lett., as A, E, I, and U, self-naming
--its plural
--formation of the plur. of nouns in
--sounds properly its own
--where sounded as short u --do. as obscure e
--diphthongs beginning with
--triphth. do. O, interj., with cap. lett.
--what emotion indicates
--differs from oh
--as denoting earnestness, before nouns or pronouns put absol. by
direct address; is no positive index of the vocative
--O, &c., MURR., erron. doctrine concerning, to what teaching it has
given rise
--O, &c., with a case following, Lat. construc. of, examined --O, not unfreq. confounded with oh, even by grammarians.
Obelisk, or dagger, as mark of reference.
Objective case, defined --Obj. case, how distinguished from the nom. in nouns
--before the infin. mood, how taken in Eng.
--as governed by active-trans. verb or part.
--"Active verbs govern the obj. case," MURR., defect of this brief
assertion; its uselessness as a RULE for "the syntax of verbs."
--Obj. case, of how many constructions susceptible
--whether infinitives, participles, &c., can be in
--two nouns in, after a verb, how parsed,
--Whether any verb in Eng. governs two objectives not coupled --Obj. case as governed by passive verbs, erron. allowed by some
--what verbs not to be employed without
--Obj. case as governed by prep. --"Prepositions gov. the obj. case," why the brief assertion is
exceptionable, as the sole RULE, in parsing prep.
Obsolete or antiquated words, use of, as opposed to purity, PREC. against --Things obsolete in Eng., DR. LATHAM'S attempts to revive.
Ocean, figurative representation of, as uttering his voice in tones of varied quantity.
Octometer line, may be reduced to tetrameter
--iambic, examples of
--trochaic, do
--dactylic, example of
--Octometer, trochaic, rhyme and termination of; its pauses, and how
may be divided; the most common form of.
Of and on or upon, difference between.
Old English, characters of its alphabet, shown
--occasional use of do.
Omissions of words that are needful to the sense, Crit. N. against.
Omitting, verbs of, with part. in stead of infin.
One, employment of, as a noun or as a substitute for a noun; how classed by some grammarians
--may be preceded by the articles, or by adjectives
--like Fr. on or l'on, used indef. for any person; in this sense preferable to a pers. pron. applied indefinitely
--CHURCH., citation ridiculing the too frequent use of, for pers. pron.
--as pronom. adj., requires verb and pron. in the third pers. sing. to
agree with it. One an other, see Other. One, or a unit, whether it is a number.
Only, derivation of; class and meaning of, in its several different relations
--strictures on the instructions of grammarians respecting the
classification and placing of
--ambiguous use of, (as also of but,) --use of, for but, or except that, not approved of by BROWN --Not only, not merely --but, &c., correspondents.
Onomatopoeia described and exemplified (extr. from SWIFT.)
Or, as expressing an alternation of terms, (Lat., sive.)
--in Eng., is frequently equivocal; the ambiguity how avoided
--Or, perh. contracted from other --Or and nor discriminated --Or, nor, grammarians dispute which of these words should be adopted after an other negative than neither or nor; MURR., following
PRIESTL., teaches that either word may be used with equal propriety;
BURN'S doctrine; BROWN, after revising CHURCH., attempts to settle
the question,
--Or ever, ("OR EVER the earth was,") the term explained.
Or or our, terminat., number of Eng. words in; how many of these may be written with our; BROWN'S practice and views in respect to this matter.
Oral spelling, the advantage of, to learners.
Order of things or events, the natural, PREC. directing the observance of, in the use of lang.
Orders of verse, see Verse.
Ordinal numeral, (see Numerals.) --Ordinal adjectives may qualify card. numbers; cannot properly be qualified by do.
Orthoëpy, see Pronunciation.
ORTHOGRAPHY
--Orthography, of what treats
--difficulties attending it in Eng.
--DR. JOHNSON'S improvements in
--DR. WEBSTER'S do., in a different direction
--ignorance of, with respect to any word used, what betokens in the
user (See also Spelling.) Orthography, figures of, MIMESIS and
ARCHAISM
--its substantive or pronominal character; (with one.) how classed by
some; may be preceded by the articles
--requires than before the latter term of an exclusive comparison; yet sometimes perhaps better takes the prep. besides. Each other one an other, import and just application
of,
--misapplication of, frequent in books,
--DR. WEBST. erron. explanation of other, as "a correlative to each," --One and other, frequently used as terms relative and partitive,
appar. demanding a plur. form,
--An other, in stead of another. Somehow or other, somewhere or other, how other is to be disposed of.
Ought, principal verb, and not auxiliary, as called by MURR. et al., --originally part of the verb to OWE; now used as defec. verb,
--its tense, as limited by the infin. which follows.
Ourself, anomalous form peculiar to the regal style,
--peculiar construc. of.
Own, its origin and import; its class and construc., --strangely called a noun by DR. JOH.
P.
P, its name and plur. numb.,
--its sound, --when silent, --Ph, its sounds.
Pairs, words in, punct. of.
Palatals, what consonants so called.
Parables, in the Scriptures, see Allegory.
Paragoge, explained.
Paragraph mark, for what used.
Paralipsis, or apophasis, explained.
Parallels, as marks of reference.
Parenthesis, signif. and twofold application of the term, --Parenthesis, marks of, (see Curves.)
--What clause to be inclosed within the curves as a PARENTHESIS, and
what should be its punct.,
--Parentheses, the introduction of, as affecting unity.
Parsing, defined. --Parsing, its relation to grammar,
--what must be considered in,
--the distinction between etymological and syntactical, to be
maintained, against KIRKH. et al.,
--character of the forms of etymological adopted by BROWN,
--what implied in the right performance of,
--whether different from analysis,
--what to be supplied in.
--Parsing, of a prep., how performed,
--of a phrase, implies its separation,
--the RULES OF GOVERNM., how to be applied in,
--of words, is not varied by mere transposition.
--Parsing, etymological and syntactical, in what order to be taken,
--the SENSE, why necessary to be observed in; what required of the
pupil in syntactical,
--syntactical, EXAMPLE of.
--Parsing or CORRECTING, which exercise perh. the more useful.
Participial adjectives, see Adjectives, Participial.
Participial or verbal noun, defined,
--how distinguished from the participle.
--Participial noun and participle, the distinction between, ill
preserved by MURR. and his amenders.
--Participial noun, distinc. of VOICE in, sometimes disregarded, ("The day of my BURYING,") --with INFIN. following, strictures on MURR., LENN., and BULL.,
with respect to examples of.
PARTICIPLES, Etymol. of.
--Participle, defined. --Participles, whether they ought to be called verbs, --appropriate naming of the kinds of,
--often become adjectives,
--become adjectives by composition with something not belonging to the
verb,
--number of, simp. and comp.,
--imply time, but do not divide it, --retain the essential meaning of their verbs, but differ from them in the formal,
--in Eng., from what derived,
--H. TOOKE'S view of the time of; with whom BROWN differs.
--Participles, Classes of, named and defined, --(See Imperfect Participle and Perfect Part.) --Participles, grammarians differ in their opinion with respect to
the time and voice of,
--how have been called and treated by some,
--explanation of the different,
--how distinguished from particip. nouns,
--elegantly taken as plur. nouns, ("All his REDEEMED,")
--appar. used for adverbs,
--some become prepositions.
--Participle and ADJUNCTS, as forming "one name," and as such, governing the poss., whence the doctrine; PRIESTL. criticised; MURR. et al. adopt PRIESTL. doctrine, which they badly sustain;
teachers of do. disagree among themselves,
--governm. of possessives by, how BROWN generally disposes of; how
determines with respect to such governm.
--Participles, Synt. of,
--regular synt. of, twofold; nature of the two constructions; OTHER
less regular constructions; which two constructions of all, are
legitimate uses of the participle; which constructions are of doubtf.
propriety.
--Participles, to what RELATE, or in what state GOVERNED. --Participle, as relating to a phrase or sentence,
--taken abstractly,
--irregularly used in Eng. as substitute for infin. mood,
--in irreg. and mixed construc.
--Participle, transitive, what case governs,
--nom. absol. with, to what equivalent,
--each requires its appropriate FORM,
--questionable uses of, admitted by MURR. et al.; why BROWN is
disposed to condemn these irregularities.
--Participle and particip. noun, distinction between, with respect to
governm.
--Participle in ing, multiplied uses of, lawful and forced,
illustrated,
--equivalence of do. to infin. mood, instances of,
--every mixed construc. of, how regarded by BROWN,
--the "double nature" of, CROMB. on; his views, how accord with those
of MURR. et al., HILEY'S treatment of; BROWN'S strictures on do.
--Participles, place of: --active, governm. of. --Participle, trans., converted to a noun: --converted, when the expression should be changed: --followed by an adj., its conversion into a noun appar. improper: --comp. converted, how managed: --not to be used for infin., or other more appropriate term: --use of, for a nominative after be, is, was, &c., faulty: --following a verb of preventing, how to be managed. --Participles, converted, disposal of their adverbs: --must be construed with a regard to the leading word in sense: --should have a clear reference to their subjects: --needless use of, for nouns, to be avoided: --punct. of: --derivation of: --poet. peculiarities in the use of.
Parts of speech, meaning of the term: --Parts of speech, named and defined:
--what explanations may aid learners to distinguish the different:
--why needful that learners be early taught to make for themselves the
prop. distribution of:
--WILS. on the distribution of:
--the preferable number with respect to; the office of, specifically
stated.
--The parts of speech, passage exemplifying all. --Examples of a partic. part of speech accumulated in a sentence. --Etymol. and Synt. of the different parts of speech, see Article, Noun, Adjective, &c.
Passions of the mind, by what tones to be expressed.
Passive verb, defined. --Pass. verbs contrasted with active-trans, verbs, in respect to the
object or the agent of the action; their compos, and construc.:
--their FORM in Eng.
--Pass. verb BE LOVED, conjug. affirmatively. --Pass. verbs, how distinguished from neuters of the same form: --having active forms nearly equivalent to them, (is rejoiced, rejoices; am resolved, know, &c.,):
--erroneously allowed by some to govern the obj. case in Eng.; CROMB.
in this category, cited, canon, pseudo-canons.
--Pass. verb, what should always take for its subj. or nom.:
--takes the same case after as before it, when both words refer to the
same thing:
--between two nominatives, with which should be made to agree,
("Words ARE wind,"). See Unco-Passive, &c.
Passive form of an active-intrans. verb followed by a prep. and its objective, ("He WAS LAUGHED AT,"). Passive sense of the act. form of the verb, ("The books continue SELLING,").
Past for future, see Prophecy.
Pauses, term defined. --Pauses, kinds of, named and explained:
--the distinctive, duration of: --after what manner should be formed: --forced, unintentional, their effect: --emphatic or rhetorical, applicat. and office of: --harmonic, kinds of; these, essential to verse. --Pauses, abrupt, punct.: --emphatic, do.
Pedantic and sense-dimming style of charlatans &c., as offending against purity.
Pentameter line, iambic, examples of:
--is the regular Eng. HEROIC; its quality and adaptation:
--embraces the elegiac stanza: --trochaic, example of, said by MURR. et al. to be very uncommon;
was unknown to DR. JOH. and other old prosodists:
--the two examples of. in sundry grammars, whence came; a couplet of
these scanned absurdly by HIL.; HART mistakes the metre of do.:
--dactylic, example of, ("Salutation to America,").
Perfect, adj., whether admits of comparison; why its comparis. by adverbs not wholly inadmissible.
Perfect definition, what.
Perfect participle, or second part., defined:
--its form:
--how has been variously called:
--its character and name as distinguished from the imperf. part:
--why sometimes called the passive part.; why this name liable to
objection:
--how may be distinguished from the preterit of the same form:
--should not be made to govern an objective term. ("The characters
MADE USE OF," MURR.,):
--not to be used for the pret., nor confounded with the pres.:
--what care necessary in the employment of; when to be distinguished
from the preterits of their verbs.
Perfect tense, defined. --Perf. tense of indic., as referring to time relatively fut.
Period, or full stop, its pause. --Period, or circuit, nature of. --Period, probably the oldest of the points; how first used:
--how used in Hebrew: --what used to mark: --Rules for the use of: --not required when short sentences are rehearsed as examples: --whether to be applied to letters written for numbers: --with other points set after it: --whether proper after Arabic figures used as ordinals. --Period of abbreviation, whether always supersedes other points.
Permanent propositions, to be expressed in the pres. tense.
Permitting, &c., verbs of, see Commanding.
Personal pronoun, defined. --Personal pronouns, simple, numb, and specificat. of:
--declension of:
--often used in a reciprocal sense, ("Wash YOU," &c.,). --(See also It.) --Personal pronouns, compound, numb. and specificat. of. 298:
--explanat. and declension of:
--CHURCH. account of:
--of the first and second persons, placed before nouns to distinguish
their persons.
Personification, defined,
--MURR. definition of, blamed, --what constitutes the purest kind of, --change of the gend. of inanimate objects by, --whether it always changes the gender of anteced. term, --agreem. of pronouns with their antecedents in cases of, --Rule for capitals in do., --comp., --Personifications, CHURCH, on the determination of gender in, --Personified objects, names of, put in the second pers., and why, --how pronouns agree with,
Persons, term defined, --Persons, named and defined,
--the distinction of, on what founded,
--Persons, numbers, &c., character of BROWN'S definitions of, --Persons, in gram., nature of; absurd teachings of some
grammar-makers concerning,
--distinctions of, in written lang.,
--Person and number of a verb, what, --Persons, second and third, of a verb, distinctive formations of,
--do., in Lat., shown,
--Person, nouns of the second, in Eng., in how many ways can be
employed,
--the third, put with the pron. I, by vulgarism, ("THINKS I to myself,")
--the first, place of,
--Persons, whether the imperat. mood may have three,
--connected antecedents of different, agreem. of pron. with,
--connected nominatives of different, agreem. of verb with,
Perspicuity, as a quality of style, in what consists,
--is essential in composition; BLAIR quoted, --the excellence of, --Precepts aiming at offences against,
Perversions of Eng. grammar, the design, in part, of BROWN'S code of synt, is to make intelligent judges of,
--Perversions, literary, Crit. N. concerning,
Phonetics, phonography, phonotopy, BROWN'S estimate of; DR. JOH. cited,
--account of, --TRENCH'S views of, --Phonographic system of stenography, its practical value; phonotopy, to what may be advantageously applied,
Phrase, defined, --Phrase made the subject of a verb, how to be taken, --Phrases, distinct, conjunctively connected, agreem. of verb with,
--distinct, disjunctively connected, do., --unconnected, do., --BAD phrases, examples of, from authors, --do., corrected, --Phrases or clauses, ellips. of, shown, --Adverbial phrase, (so termed by some,) see Adverb.
Place or position of the different parts of speech, see Article, Noun, Adjective, &c.
Pleonasm, defined, --Pleonasm, when allowable with respect to a pron.,
--in what instances impressive and elegant; when, the vice of ill
writing,
--occurs sundry times in the Bible,
Pluperfect tense, defined, --Pluperf. tense, what implies when used conditionally; what, in the
negative form of supposition,
--how formed in the indic. mood; do. in the potential,
--indic. form of, put by enall. for pluperf. of the pot.,
--PLUPERFECT, signif. of the term; several innovators (as BULL., BUTL.,
et al.) have been fain to discard it,
Plural number, of nouns, how formed,
--of most nouns in Eng., is simple and regular,
--of nouns ending in a vowel preceded by a vowel,
--of do. in y preceded by a consonant, --of do. in o preceded by a consonant, --construc. of, when several persons of the same name are spoken of ("The Stuarts,")
--of prop. names, its formation,
--of nouns in i, o, u, or y, preceded by a consonant, --when name and title are to be used together, ("The Miss Bells,") --of nouns in f, --of nouns not formed in s or es,
--of compounds,
--of certain compound terms, ("Ave-Maries," &c.,)
--wanting to some nouns,
--of nouns of multitude,
--Plural, nouns made so by nature or art,
--of foreign nouns, 253,
--improperly formed by adding apostrophic s,
--of mere characters, how denoted,
Plurality, the idea of; see Unity, &c.
Poetic feet, treated, --(See Iambus, Trochee, &c.) --Poetic foot, of what consists, --Poet. feet, number to be recognized in Eng.,
--principal Eng., named and defined,
--kinds of, which form ORDERS OF VERSE,
--what combinations of, severally form dimeter, trimeter, &c., --(See Dimeter, Trimeter, &c.) --Poetic collocation of words, in prose, as offending against
perspicuity, PREC. respecting,
--Poetic diction, treated,
--in what abounds,
--Poetical Peculiarities,
Poetry, as defined by BLAIR,
--character of its style, --aim and end of, --exterior distinction of, --why difficult, by a definition, to be distinguished from prose, --inept directions of some grammatists respecting the parsing of, --Poetry, every line in, should begin with a capital,
Points, or stops, the principal, named, and their forms shown,
--the purpose of, --length of pauses denoted by, --often variously used in different editions of the same work, --origin of, See Punctuation.
Points of the compass, adjectives for; modes of varying them,
Possession, relation of, see Property.
Possessive case, defined, --Poss. case, how formed
--disputes of the earlier grammarians respecting, --CARD. et al. attempt to revive exploded error concerning, --form of, --origin of, in Eng., --odd notions of some grammarians concerning
the regular formation of
--exceptions or irregularities in the formation of
--Poss. case, PEI. on, criticised
--ASH and PRIESTL. on the plur.
--use of the two forms of, in pers. pronouns
--of the simp. pers. pronouns, grammarians differ with respect to;
should not be considered mere adjectives
--are pronom. adjectives, according to DR. LOWTH and his followers,
--whose doctrine BROWN canvasses, also, WEBSTER'S, WILSON'S, MURRAY'S
--Poss. case, its equivalence to of and the objective, not a sameness of case, (in oppos. to Nix.)
--of pronouns, not to be written with apostrophe
--of nouns in appos., application of the possessive sign to
--by what governed
--whether the rule for, has true exceptions
--appos. of one with an other, ("For DAVID my SERVANT'S sake,")
the construc. examined
--appar. in abstract construc., ("All MINE are THINE,")
--as governed by a part, the construc. examined; COROL.
--why the governm. of, should be limited to nouns only
--whether before a real part., denotes the possession of something
--Possessive sign, omission oL not a true ellips.
--always implies a governing word,
--how taken by compounds
--liable to be added to adjunct of the former noun
--whether it can be rightly added to separate adjectives, ("The GUILTY'S prayer,") --which noun of connected possessives takes
--Poss. case, place and order of
--generally equivalent to prep. of and the objective,
--governed by something not expressed, ("St. Paul's,")
--Possessives, connected, how to be taken, --Poss. singular, with s omitted, ("For CONSCIENCE' sake") --Poss. case of nouns sing, in ss, false teaching of KIRKH. et al., respecting the formation of
--MURR. rule for the construc. of, why objectionable,
--compounds embracing, lack uniformity in writing,
--peculiarity of, with respect to correlatives, ("Father's son,")
--Possessive relation between a portion of time and its correlative action, ("THREE YEARS' hard work" or, "Three years OF HARD
WORK,")
--Poss. case, appropriate form of, to be observed,
--plural, with a noun in forced agreem., ("For OUR PARTS,") ib., N. iv:
--needless use of, before a participle, ("In THEIR pronouncing the Greek,") --Possessive pronouns, my, thy, his, &c., how often should be
inserted, or repeated
Potential mood, defined --Potential mood, why so called; by what signs distinguished,
--may, like the indic., be used in asking questions; why by some
included in the subj.
--in what tenses used; nature of the imperf. tense
--formation and inflection of its tenses, shown in the verb LOVE,
conjugated,
Power of a letter, the powers of the letters, what meant by, when spoken of,
--The power of a letter is not its sound, as MURR. et al incorrectly
teach
--The simple powers of the letters, many irreconcileable doctrines
have been advanced thereon; GARDINER'S notions concerning, stated in
brief,
--RUSH'S explanations of, his pretentious scheme of the alphab. how
estimated by BROWN
--The just powers of the letters, what, and how are to be learned, --Powers of the letters, variable; how become so; WALK, cited
Praxis, defined; lit. signif. of the word, as from the Gr.
Precision, as a quality of style, in what consists,
--Precepts aiming at offences against --conciseness, or brevity, as opposed to
Prefixes, their management in syllabication, R.:
--Explanation of
--import and character of the particles used as, in Eng.; the roots
to which prefixed, not always proper Eng. words
--Prefixes, ENG. or ANGLO-SAX., --Prefixes, poet, usage with respect to,
Preperfect participle, defined --Preperf. part., its form
--its nature and name,
PREPOSITIONS, Etymol. of
--Preposition defined
--importance of a right use, and a right explan. of
--HARR. explanation of, as cited by LOWTH, stricture on HARR.
--its simplicity among the parts of speech; how should be explained in
parsing,
--no sufficient RULE for the synt. of, in most of the Eng. grammars,
Prepositions and their objects, as preceding the words on which they depend, ("Of man's first disobedience, &c., Sing" MILC.,) --Prepositions, what it is, to find the terms of relations of;
disput. text cited in illustration
--the special adaptation of; example of misuse by MURR., remarked on --HARR., on the purpose for which almost all prepositions were orig.
formed, and on the nature of their relations; his views controverted
by BROWN,
--Prepositions and their governed objects, the true determination of;
examples of joint objects, and of joint antecedents, wrong views of
MURR. and his followers concerning this matter.
--Prepositions, two connected, for what different purposes used --two coming together, ("FROM AMONG the just,") --Prepositions complex, what their character, and how may be
resolved; are occasionally compounded by the hyphen
--Prepositions, how might be divided into classes; the inutility in parsing of the division into "separable and inseparable;"
HALL'S absurd idea of a divis., noticed
--whether "two in immediate succession require a noun to be understood
between them," (NUTT.)
--words commonly reckoned, (in, on, of, &c.,) used after infinitives or participles, in adverbial construc., ("Houses to eat and drink
IN")
--Prepositions, List of
--grammarians differ considerably in their tables of; do. concerning
the characteristics of; what BROWN supposes, in oppos. to the
assertion that "Every prep. requires an obj. case after it" --LENN. and BULL. on "prepositions becoming adverbs," criticised --MURR. on "prepositions appearing to be adverbs," criticised --Preposition, whether it can be justly said to take a sent. for its
object
--Prepositions, words in the list of, sometimes used as other parts
of speech
--extension of the list of
--examples of the less usual, a, and others beginning with a --do. of unusual ones beginning with b, c, or d --unusual, quotations illustrating further the list of --Preposition, RULE of synt. for the word governed by --Prepositions, in Eng., govern no other case than the obj.; most,
may take the imperf. part. for their obj.
--The brief assertion, that "Prepositions govern the obj. case,"
wherein is exceptionable as the sole rule for both terms
--Prepositions, ellipt. construc. of, with adjectives, (in vain, in secret, &c.)
--sometimes appar. govern adverbs
--Preposition, appar. governing a perf. part., ("To give it up FOR
LOST")
--Prepositions, Synt. of
--do., in what consists
--what RELATIONS, show; (see To and For)
--the parsing of; why tolerable writers are liable to err most in their
use of
--Preposition, the true terms of the relat. of, how may be discovered
--when beginning or ending a sent. or clause, what the construc.
--the terms of relation of, what may be; both usually expressed
--position of, with respect to the governed word
--Prepositions, several, dependent on one anteced. term, ("A declaration FOR virtue and AGAINST vice," BUTL.)
--two coming together between the same terms of relat.; do. in the same
construc.; erron. remark of PRIESTL., MURR., et al., concerning the
latter
--Preposition, the separating of, from its noun, false doctrine of LOWTH, MURR., et al., concerning --Prepositions, prop, choice of
--do., with respect to the allowable uses of
--as adapted in meaning to two objects, or to more --Preposition, ellips. or omiss. of, where ineleg.
--insertion of, when do.
--Prep. and its object, position of, in respect to other words
--do., punc. of
--Prep., ellips. of, shown --Prepositions, derivation of
--poet. usage with respect to
Present tense, defined --Pres. tense, described
--of the indic., used to express general truths
--deceased authors spoken of in, and why
--for the past, by Grecism; in animated narrative, for do., by enall.
--of the indic. and the subj., when preceded by as soon as, &c., to what time, refers
--of the infin., what time is expressed by; expedients used to express
fut. time by
--of the INFINITIVE, the ROOT, or RADICAL VERB
--of the subj., its use, and how considered by some
--Pres. tense, sometimes improp. with the conjunc. that, ("Others said, THAT it is Elias")
Preter, preterimperfect, &c., disused terms for past, imperfect, &c. --Preter, prefix, its meaning
Preterit, defined --Preterit, described
--its form and variations
--present tendency to a reg. orthog. of, to be encouraged
--groundless rule of some, for forming second pers. of, when the pres.
and the pret. are alike
--not to be used in forming the comp. tenses of a verb
Preventing, verbs of, with part., in stead of infin.
--what construc. is proper for
Primitive word, defined --Primitive words regarded as such in Eng., may generally be traced
to ulterior sources
Principal parts, of a verb, (see Chief Terms)
--of a sent., how many, and what
Priscian, ancient grammarian, delivers the names of most of the Lat. letters
Progressive form of a verb, see Compound &c.
Pronominal adjectives, see Adjectives, Pronominal
PRONOUNS, Etymol. of
--Pronoun, definition of --Pronouns in Eng., number of, and their variations
--nature of the representation by; are put substantively, relatively,
or adjectively; difference in these three modes of substitution
--Classes of, named, and defined; (see Personal Pronoun, Relative Pron., and Interrogative Pron.) --Pronouns, compound, constructional peculiarities of --Pronouns, faultiness and discordance of most Eng. grammars, with
respect to the classification and treatment of; specification of
different modes of distribution by diff. authors
--Modifications of, named; these properties how distinguished in the
personal pronouns; do. how ascertained in the relat. and interrog.
pronouns
--Declension of; simp. personals declined; comp. personals do.; comp.
relatives do.
--appar. used for adverbs
--Pronouns, Synt. of --Pronoun, agreem. of, with its anteced.
--do., with anteced. indefinite
--plur., put by enall. for the sing., agreem. of
--sometimes disagreeing with the anteced. in one sense, because taking
it in an othe
r
--what the main point with respect to; what application of the rule of
agreem., in parsing
--Pronouns, agreem. of, with their antecedents, as affected by the
figures of rhetoric
--place of
--Pronoun, as representing a phrase or sentence
--under what circumstances can agree with either of two antecedents
--the parsing of, commonly requiring the application of two rules
--with suppressed anteced.
--needless introduction of, ("PALLAS, HER glass," BACON) --with change of numb. in the second pers., or promisc. use of ye and you
--must present the same idea as the anteced., and never confound the
name with the thing signified
--employment of the same, with respect to connected relative clauses --in what instances the noun must be repeated, or inserted in stead
of
--should never be used to represent an adj., ("Be ATTENTIVE; without WHICH," &c.) --change of anteced. to accord with
--agreem. with collective nouns
--do. with joint antecedents
--do. with connected antecedents in apposition
--do. with connected antecedents emphat. distinguished
--do. with connected antecedents preceded by each, every, or no
--do. with connected antecedents of different persons
--agreeing with implied nominatives
--agreem. with disjunct antecedents
--what agreem. with disjunct. antecedents of different persons,
numbers, and genders
--do. with antecedents taken affirmatively and negatively
--do. with two antecedents connected by as well as, &c.
--ellips. of, shown
--punct. of, without pause
--Pronouns, derivation of, from Sax.
--poet. peculiarities of
Pronunciation, importance of an early habit of distinct
--how best taught to children
--Pronunc., as distinguished from elocution, what; how differs from
articulation
--Pronunc. of the Eng. lang., what knowledge requires; its
difficulties; whether we have any system of, worthy to be accounted a
STANDARD
Proof-texts, not to be perverted in the quotation, Crit. N. --not quoted, but invented, by some, in their false illustrations
of gram.
Proper names begin with capitals --Comm. and proper name associated, how written --Prop. names, derivatives from, do. --(Names of Deity, see Deity.) --Prop. names, application of rule concerning; distinc. between do.
and common appellatives
--of places, comparative difficulty of writing them
--modern compound, sparing use of hyphen in
--Prop. names, what their relative importance in lang.
--structure and signif. of; how should be written
--of plur. form, preceded by def. art.
--Prop. name, with def. art., acquires the import of a comm. --Proper, from a comm. noun personified --Prop. names of individuals, strictly used as such, have no plur.; prop. name, how made plur., and how then considered
--when they form a plur., how form it
--of persons, generally designate their sex
--Prop. name, in appos. with an appellative --represented by which, ("Herod --WHICH is," &c.) --Prop. name and title, when taken together in a plur. sense, in
what form to be written
Property, the relation of, how may be otherwise expressed than by the poss. case
Prophecy, the past tenses substituted for the fut., in the lang. of
Propositions, permanent, in what tense should be expressed
Propriety, as a quality of style, in what consists
--its oppos., impropriety, what embraces --Precepts aiming at offences against
Prose and verse, in the composition of lang., how differ
PROSODY
--Prosody, of what subjects treats
--etymol. and signif. of the word
--Prosody, meagrely and immethodically treated in the works of many
grammarians
--undetermined usage as to what things belong to; how treated by some
of the old prosodists; account of SMETIUS'S treatise of; do.
GENUENSIS'S
Prosthesis, explained
Proverbs, their elliptical character
Provincial expressions, use of, as opposed to purity
PUNCTUATION, arranged under the head of Prosody
--Punct., what
--principal marks of, named and shown; what they severally denote
--RULES of: for Comma; for Semicolon; for Colon; for Period; for
Dash; for Eroteme; for Ecphoneme; for Curves
--description of the other marks of --(See Comma, Semicolon, &c.) --Punct., the present system of, in Eng., common to many languages
--why often found diverse, in diff. editions and diff. versions of the
same work
--duty of writers in respect to, and of publishers in reproducing
ancient books
--some account of the orig. and prog. of
--"improvement" in, which is no improvement
--confused and discordant explanations, by some, of certain of the
marks of
Purity, as a quality of style, in what consists
--Precepts aiming at offences against
Pyrrhic, defined
Q.
Q, its name and plur. numb.
--has no sound peculiar to itself; its power --is always followed by u
Quakers, or Friends, their style of address, see Friends
Qualities of style, treated --See Style Quantity, or time in pronunciation, explained
--as defined by the lexicographers
--its effect in the prolation of sounds
--WALKER'S views of, unsatisfac. to BROWN
--as regulated by emphasis, MURR.
--Quant. of a syll., how commonly explained
--by what marks may be indicated
--Quantities poetic, how denominated, and how proportioned --What quantity coincides with accent or emphasis --Quantity, on what depends
--where variable, and where fixed, in Eng.
--Crit. observations on accent and quantity --Quantity, its distinction from accent --Accent and quantity, differing views of authors relative to --Quantity, impropriety of affirming it to be the same as accent
--DR. JOH. identification of accent with; such, also, that of others;
(not so HARRIS;) NOEHD. rightly defines; so FISK, (in Eschenb. Man.
Class. Lit.,) et al.
--our grammarians seem not to have understood the distinc. of long and
short, e. g., FISHER; so SHERID., WALK., MURR., et al.
--CHAND. absurd and confused scheme of, noticed
--suggestion of WEBST. on, approved
Questions, can be asked only in the indic. or the pot. mood
--direct, to be marked by the eroteme
--united, how to be marked
--indirect, do.
--a series of, how may be united and marked
--exclamatory, how to be marked
--Question, mentioned in due form, how marked
--declaratively put, how uttered and marked
--in Spanish, doubly marked, ("¿Quien llama?";) in Greek, how
Quite, with art. and adj., construc. how differs according to position of art.
Quotation, direct, first word of, written with capital --Quotations of proof-texts, &c., should be literally given --dependent, separated from say, &c., by comma
--indep., preceded by colon --Quotat. within a quotat., how usually marked
Quoth and quod, signif. and use of, in ludicrous lang. or in the old writers
R.
R, name and plur. numb.
--of the class liquids --sound of; do., how can be varied in utterance --what faults to be avoided in do. --DR. JOH. account of; WALK. do.
Radicals, separable and inseparable, what are so called in Eng. derivation
Rath, adv., used only in the compar. deg. --Rather, with the exclusive term of comparis. introduced by than
--derivation of
Reading, to read, in gram., what the signif. of --READ, verb, CONJUGATED affirmatively in Comp. Form
Reciprocal terms, reciprocals, what pronom. adjectives may be so termed --Reciprocals, EACH OTHER, ONE AN OTHER, their nature and import
--misapplicat. of, frequent in books; WEBST. errs in the signif. and
applicat. of other. See also Other
Reciprocal or reflected verbs, constructions in imitation of the French
Recurrence of a word in different senses, a fault opposed to propriety
Redundant verb, defined --Redund. verbs, why made a separate class
--treated --List of
Reference, marks of, ASTERISK, OBELISK, &c., shown; in what order are introduced
--what other signs of, may be used. Reference, doubtful, Crit. N.
concerning
Reformers of the Eng. alphabet and orthog., some account of
Rejoice, resolve, incline, &c., import of, in the pass. form
Relations of things, their infinitude and diversity; the nature of RELATION
--Relation of words, what
--is diff. from agreem., but may coincide with it
--Relation according to the sense, an important principle in Eng. synt.; what rules of relation commonly found in the grammars --Simple relation, what parts of speech have no other syntact. property than; what simp. relations there are in Eng. --Relation, with respect to a prep., anteced. term, what may be; subseq., do. --Relation, do., terms of, to be named in parsing a prep.; how the
terms may be ascertained by a learner
--terms of, to a prep., may be transposed; are very various; both
usually expressed
Relative pronouns, defined --Relative pronouns, and their compounds, named; declined
--chief constructional peculiarities of
--two faulty special rules given by the grammarians, for construc. of,
noticed
--construc. of, with respect to CASE
--ellips. of, in famil. lang., ("The man I trust;") do., poet. --Relative and prep. governing it, when should not be omitted --Relative pron., place of --clauses, connected, employment of, with same pron. in each --Rel. pronouns, exclude conjunctions
--derivat. of, from Sax.
--poet, peculiarities with respect to. See also Who, Which, &c.
Repetition, of a noun or pronoun, what c
onstruc. it produces
--of words, emphatic, punct. --of words, through paucity of lang.; against propriety --of do., as demanded by precision --Repetitions, see Pleonasm
Restrictive and resumptive senses of the rel. pronouns, distinc. between, expl.
--Restrictive, relation, most approp. expressed by the pron. THAT --admits not a comma before the relative --adj., admits not a comma before it --part., do.
Rhetoric, figure of, defined --Figures of rhetoric, see Figures
Rhetorical pauses, see Pauses
Rhode Island, the name how acquired; peculiarity of its application
Rhyme, defined --Rhyming syllables, their nature and quality
Rhythm, of verse, defined
--Fancifully explained by E. A. POE, (who without intelligence derives
the term from [Greek: hurithmos])
--sense and signif. of the word
Roman letters, some account of
Rules, of RELATION, what, commonly found in grammars
--of SYNT., those common in grammars ill adapted to their purpose;
examples of such
--of do., exposition of the faulty charac. of those in Eng. grammars
--Rules of grammar, advantage of, in the written language
Rush, Dr. J., his new doctrine of the vowels and consonants, in oppos. to the old, how estimated by BROWN
--his doctrine of a duplicity of the vocal elements, perstringed
--his strange division of the vowels "into two parts," and conversion
of most of them into diphthongs; his enumeration and specification of
the alphabetic elements
S.
S, its name and plur. numb.
--final, in monosyllables, spell.
--of the poss. case, occas. dropping of; the elis. how to be regarded,
and when to be allowed
--its sounds
--in what words silent
--Ss, sound of
S or es, verbal termin., DR. LOWTH'S account of
Sans, from Fr., signif., and where read
Sabaoth, see Deity
Same cases, construc. of
--do., on what founded --what position of the words, admitted by the construc. --Same case, after what verbs, except those which are pass., taken --Same cases, notice of the faulty rules given by LOWTH, MURR., et al., for the construc. of
Sameness of signif., what should be that of the nom. following a verb or part.
--Sameness of words, see Identity
Sapphic, verse, described --stanza, composition of; examp. from HOR. --Sapphic verse, difficulty of; Eng. Sapphics few; scansion of; "The
Widow," of SOUTHEY, scanned --Eng. Sapphic, DR. WATTS'S ode, (in part.) "The Day of Judgement," "attempted in" --HUMPH. on, cited --Sapphics, burlesque, examples of
Save, saving, as denoting exception, class and construc. of --Save, derivation of
Saxon, alphabet, some account of
--lang., its form about the year 450; do. subsequently
Scanning, or scansion, explained --Why, in scanning, the principal feet are to be preferred to the
secondary --The poetry of the earliest Eng. poets, not easy of scansion
Script letters, the alphabet exhibited in --the forms of, their adaptation to the pen
Scripture names, many discrepancies in, found in different editions of the Bible. Scriptures, see Bible
Section, mark, uses of
SEE, verb, irreg., act., CONJUGATED affirmatively
--takes infin. without prep. TO --its construc. with infin. without to
Seeing and provided, as connectives, their class
Seldom, adv., its comparison; use of, as an adj.
Self, in the format, of the comp. pers. pronouns
--CHURCH. explan. of --signif. and use of --as an Eng. prefix --after a noun poss., in poet. diction
Self-contradiction, Crit. N. respecting
Self-naming letters
Semicolon, point
--for what purpose used --from what takes its name --when adopted in England --is useful and necessary, though discarded by some late grammarians --Rules for the use of
Semivowel, defined --Semivowels named; nature of w and y; sound of certain, as
aspirates
Sense and construc. to be considered, in joining together or writing separately words otherw. liable to be misunderstood
--Sense or meaning, necessary to be observed in parsing
Senseless jumbling, Crit. N. concerning
Sentence, defined --Sentence, its parts, principal and subordinate --Sentences, the two kinds of, named and defined
--whether a tripartite distribut. of is expedient --Simple sent., false notions amongst grammarians of what constitutes one; the parsing of words not affected thereby --Sentences, simp. and comp., DR. WILS. explanation of --component parts of, what these are --whether all, can be divided into clauses --in what FIVE WAYS, can be analyzed --Sentences, simp., punct.
of,
--distinct, do., --allied, do., --short, rehearsed in close succession, how pointed.
Series, of terms, proper use of the articles in,
--of words, how to be commaed.
Set and sit, signif. and employment of.
Sex, to what persons ascribed; why a young child may be spoken of without distinc. of,
--whether animals may be represented as of no, --inanimate objects fig. represented as having. --Sexes, distinction of, by words, in diff. ways, --denoted by terminat. of words, --designated by proper names.
Shall, verb, how varied,
--original signif. of, --explet. use of. --Shall and will, discriminative application of, in the fut. indic.
Sheridan, T., actor and orthoëpist, his literary reputation; the worth of his writings.
Side, noun, peculiarities of usage in regard to.
Silent, or mute, when a letter is said to be.
Silliness, literary, Crit. N. concerning.
Simile, explained.
Since, improp. use of, for ago,
--derivation of, from Anglo-Sax.
Sit and set, use and signif. of.
So, as expressing the sense of a preced. word or phrase,
--derivation of, from Sax. --So --as, as --so, correspondents.
Soever or soe'er, whether a word or only a part of an other word; how explained by WEBST.
Solemn style, as distinguished from the familiar,
--should not be displaced from the paradigms in a grammar,
--is not adapted to familiar discourse,
--pres. and pret. terminations of, what, and how uttered,
--examp. of, second pers. sing., negat., throughout the verb LOVE,
conjugated.
Some, classed, --vulg. used for somewhat, or in some degree, ("SOME longer," SANB.). Somehow or other, somewhere or other, what the construc. Somewhere, nowhere, anywhere, &c., their class, and how
should be written.
Sort, see Kind.
Sound, of a letter, commonly called its power, --elementary, of the voice, defined. --Sounds, simp. or primary, numb. in Eng., --elementary, what meant by; are few in numb.; their combinations may
be innumerable.
--Vowel sounds, or vocal elements, how produced, and where heard;
what those in Eng., and how may be modified in the format. of
syllables; do., how may be written, and how uttered.
--Consonant sounds, simp., in Eng., how many, and what; by what
letters marked; in what words heard.
--Sounds, long and short, SIGNS used to denote them. --Sounds, a knowledge of, how acquired,
--importance of being early taught to pronounce those of one's native
lang.
--Passage exemplifying all the letters, and all the SOUNDS, in Eng. --Sounds of the Letters, treated.
Speak, to speak, what is meant by.
Speaker, why often speaks of himself in the third pers., --represents himself and others by we,
--in Eng., should mention himself last. --The elegant speaker, by what distinguished.
Species and figure of words, what so called,
--unsettled usage of the lang. with regard to what relates to the
latter. Species and genus of things, how admits limitation by the
article.
SPELLING, defined.
--Spelling, how to be acquired, --cause of the difficulty of its acquisition, --Rules for, --usage, as a law of, --uniformity and consistency in, how only can be attained. --The right spelling of a word, what, PHILOLOG. Mus. --Oral spelling, how should be conducted. --Charac. of BROWN'S rules for spelling.
Spondee, defined.
St, unsyllab. suffix, whether, wherever found, is a modern contrac. of the syllable est.
Standards of English orthog., the books proposed as such, abound in errors and inconsistencies.
--Whether we have a system of Eng. ORTHOEPY worthy to be accounted a
STANDARD.
Stanza, defined. --Stanzas, uniformity of, in the same poem,
--varieties of,
--Elegiac stanza, described. --Stanzas, lyric, examples of, --"A GOOD NAME," ("two beautiful little stanzas," BROWN).
Star, or asterisk, use of. --Three stars, or asterism,
Stenotone, or breve, for what used.
Stops, in printing or writing, see Points.
Strength, as a quality of style, in what consists,
--essentials of, --Precepts aiming at offences against.
Strew, whether, or not, an other mode of spelling strow; whether to be distinguished in utterance from do.; whether reg. or irreg.
STYLE, qualities of, treated.
--Style, as connected with synt., what,
--differs from mere words and mere grammar; not regulated entirely by
rules of construc.,
--what relation has to the author himself, and what shows,
--general characters of, by what epithets designated.
--What must be remembered by the learner, in forming his style; a good style how acquired. --Style, solemn, familiar, &c., as used in gram., what meant by. --(See Solemn Style.)
Subaudition, meaning of the term.
Subdisjunctive particle, of the Latins, expressed in Eng. by or of alternat.
Subject of a finite verb, what, and how may be known,
--must be the NOM. CASE, --what besides a noun or pronoun may be. --Subject phrases, joint, what agreements require. --Subject and predicate, in analysis. See also Nominative Case.
Subjunctive mood, defined. --Subj. mood, why so called; what denotes,
--differing views of grammarians in regard to the numb. and form of its
tenses.
--The true subj. mood rejected by some late grammarians; strictures
on WELLS.
--WELD'S erroneous teaching respecting the subj., noticed,
--CHAND. do., do.
--Chief characteristical diff. between the indic. and the subj. mood. --Subj. mood described,
--its two tenses do., and their forms shown, in the verb LOVE,
conjugated,
--whether ever put after a rel. pronoun,
--proper limits of,
--how properly employed.
--False subj. --Subj. mood, not necessarily governed by if, lest, &c.
Such, corresponding to that, with infin. foll., --with rel. as following, in stead of who or which.
Sui generis, what thing is thus designated.
Superlative degree, defined, --BROWN'S definit. of, and of the other degrees, new; the faulty
charac. of those of MURR., shown,
--the true nature of; how may be used; to what is applicable; the
explanations of, by the copyists of MURR., criticised,
--whether not applicable to two objects, --when employed, what construc. of the latter term should follow. --Double superlatives, to be avoided. --Superl. termination, contractions of.
Supplied, in parsing, what must be. See also Ellipsis.
Suppression, mark of, see Ellipsis.
Syllabic writing, far inferior to the alphabetic, BLAIR.
Syllabication, Rules of,
--the doctrine of, why attended with difficulty,
--object of; WALK. on; strictures on MULK. rules of,
--which of the four purposes of, is preferable in spelling-books and
dictionaries,
--DR. LOWTH on,
--nature of BROWN'S six Rules of; advantage of a system of, founded on
the pronunciat.,
--LATH. and FOWL. fictitious dilemmas in.
--Syllabication, erroneous, samples of, from MURR., WEBST., et al.
SYLLABLES, treated.
--Syllable defined. --Syllable, cannot be formed without a vowel, --cannot be broken. --Syllables, numb. of, in a word, --words denominated from their numb. of, --the ear chiefly directs in the division of words into. --(See Syllabication.) --Syllable, its quantity in poetry, --do., on what depends.
Syllepsis, explained,
--literal signif. of the term; extended applicat. of do. by the
grammarians and rhetoricians; BROWN, by his definition, gives it a
more restricted applicat.; disapproves of WEBST. explanat. of the
term,
--what definition or what applicat. of the term is the most approp.,
has become doubtful.
Synæresis, explained.
Synchysis, what was so termed by some of the ancients; is different from hyperbaton; its import in gram.; its literal signif.
Syncope, explained.
Synecdoche, (comprehension,) explained. --Synecd., agreem. of pron. with anteced., in cases of.
Synonymous, words so accounted, PREC. concerning the use of.
Syntactical parsing, see Parsing.
SYNTAX.
--Synt., of what treats, --the relation of words, the most important principle of; defects of
the grammars in treating of do.,
--false exhibitions of grammarians with respect to the scope and parts
of,
--character of the rules of, found in most grammars,
--divided by some grammarians into concord and governm., and yet
treated by them without regard to such division,
--common fault of grammarians, noticed, of joining together diff. parts
of speech in the same rule of,
--do., of making the rules of, double or triple in their form,
--whether the principles of etymol. affect those of.
--All synt., on what founded. --Why BROWN deemed it needful to add to his code of synt. a GENERAL RULE and CRITICAL NOTES. Figures of syntax.
T.
T, name and plur. numb. of,
--substitution of, for ed, how far allowable,
--sounds of,
--is seldom silent; in what words not sounded. Th, ([Greek: Th],
[Greek: alt-th], or [Greek: alt2-th], Gr.,) what represents; how was
represented in Anglo-Sax., and to what sounds applied; the two sounds
of. To a Tee, the colloq. phrase, explained.
Tautology of expression or of sentiment, a fault opposed to precision.
Teacher, what should be his aim with respect to gram.
Technical terms, unnec. use of, as opposed to propriety. Technically, words and signs taken, how to be construed.
Tenses, term defined. --Tenses, the difierent, named and defined,
--whether the names of, are approp., or whether they should be changed,
--whether all express time with equal precision,
--who reckon only three, and who two; who still differently and
variously name their tenses,
-
-Tenses, past and present, occurring together. See Present Tense, Imperf. Tense, &c.
Terminating a sentence with a prep. or other small particle
Terminations, of words, separated in syllabicat.
--of verbs, numb. of different, in each tense --of the Eng. verb; DR. A. MURR. account of --tendency of the lang. to lay aside the least agreeable --usage of famil. discourse in respect to those of second pers. sing. --verbal or particip., how are found written in old books --the only reg. ones added to Eng. verbs; utterance of ed and edst --ed, participial, and n, verbal, WALK. on the contrac. of --Termination t, for ed, forced and irreg.
Terms of relation, see Relation. Tetrameter line, iambic, examples of
--a favorite with many Eng. writers; BUTL. Hudib., GAY'S Fab., and most
of SCOTT'S poems, writt. in couplets of this meas.
--admits the doub. rhyme adapted to familiar and burlesque style
--trochaic, examples of
--character of do.
--EVERETT'S fanciful notions about do.
--anapestic, examples of
--L. HUNT'S "Feast of the Poets," an extended examp. of do.
--dactylic, examples of
Than, as, with ellips. in latter term of comparison
--character and import of --declinable words connected by, put in same case --Than WHOM, as Gr. genitive governed by comparat., MILT. --what grammarians have inferred from the phrase --MURR. expedient to dispose of do. --CHURCH. makes the rel. in do. "the obj. case absol.," --BROWN determines with respect to the construc. --Than, as demanded after else, other, &c., and Eng. comparatives --derivation of, from Goth. or Anglo-Sax.
That, its class determined
--its various uses
--as REL. PRONOUN, to what applied
--as used in anomalous construc.,
--its peculiarity of construc. as a relative
--its especial use as the restrictive relative
--the frequent employment of, by Addison, wrongly criticised by BLAIR
--as a relative, in what cases more appropriate than who or which --That, ellipt., repeating the import of the preceding words, ("And
THAT,"
--[Greek: kai tauta],)
--That, in the phrases in that, &c., how to be reckoned --That, as introducing a dependent clause, how to be ranked
--as introducing a sent. made the subj. or obj. of a finite verb
--its power at the head of a sent. or clause
--its derivation
The, before the species, what may denote
--how commonly limits the sense
--applied to nouns of either numb.
--before what adjectives, required --distinctive use of ("The Psalmist")
--as relating to comparatives and superlatives
--used for poss. pron.
--repetition of, how avoided
--derivation of, from Sax.
--pronunc. of e in. See also Definite Article.
Them, in vulg. use as an adj., for those
Thence, &c., with from prefixed, whether allowable
There, introductory and idiomatic, notions of grammarians concerning; its posit. and use; is a regular adv. of place, and not "without signification,"
--derivation of, from Anglo-Sax. --poet. omission of
They, put indefinitely for men or people
This and that, as explained by CHURCH. --placed before conjoint singulars, ("THIS POWER AND WILL do," &c.,)
--in contrasted terms
Three stars, or asterism, use of
Time, the order and fitness of, to be observed in constructions expressing it
--nouns of, with adv. WHEN, as a special relative, following Time, measure, or weight, part made possessive of the whole, ("An HOUR'S time") --noun of, not poss., immediately before an other, ("A POUND WEIGHT,") Time, place, &c., the obj. case in expressions of, taken after the fashion of an adv. Time, measure, distance, or value, nouns of, their peculiarity of construc.; the parsing of Time, obj. noun of, qualifying a subsequent adj., ("A child OF ten years
OLD,") Four times, five times, &c., how to be reckoned. TIMES, before an other noun, by way of MULTIPLICATION, the nature and construc. of, discussed; decision. Times, in what construc. may be called the objective of repetition, or of time repeated. Time in pronunciation, or quantity
Titles, of books, are printed in capitals
--of office, &c., begin with do.
--merely mentioned as such, are without art.
--Name and TITLE, (see Proper Names.) Side-titles, use of dash
in application to
Tmesis, explained
To, as governing infin. mood
--do., variously explained by grammarians
--is a sign of inf., but not a part of it
--what BROWN claims for his RULE respecting the infin. as gov. by the prep. TO, &c.; he shows that the doctrine originated not with
himself
--TO and the verb, what FISHER (anno 1800) taught respecting; what,
LOWTH, and what, absurdly, MURR., his copyist
--To, as governing infin., traced from the Sax. to the Eng. of
W
ICKL.,
--To, before infin., evasive teachings of the later grammarians
concerning its class and construc.
--do., how considered by most Eng. grammarians
--do., how proved to be a prep.
--do., preceded by for, anc. --after what verbs, omitted, --whether to be repeated before infinitives in the same construe. --sometimes required, and sometimes excluded, after than or as --whether it may be separated from its verb by an adv.; is placed more elegantly AFTER an adv., ("PROPERLY TO respect,")
--in what cases has no prop, antec. term of relat.
--To suppressed and be inserted after MAKE, whether correctly --To, prep, or adv., from Anglo-Sax. --To, as prefix to noun, (to-day, to-night, to-morrow,).
Tones of the voice, what; why deserving of j particular attention
--what denominated by SHERID.; what should be their character --BLAIR'S remark on; HIL. do. --Tones of the passions, WALK, observation on.
Topics, different, to be treated in separate paragraphs, PREC. of Unity.
Transposition, of the terms of relat., when a preposition begins or ends a sentence or clause
--rhetorical, of words, or hyperbaton.
Tribrach, defined.
Trimeter line, iambic, the measure seldom used alone; examples of,
--and do., with diversifications
--trochaic, examples of --anapestic, examples of
--alternated with the tetram., examp., "The Rose," of COWP.; the same
scanned
--dactylic, examples of. Triphthong, defined --proper, do., the only, in Eng. --improp., do.; and the improp. triphthongs named.
Trochaic verse, treated --Troch. verse, the stress in --nature of the single-rhymed; error of MURR. et al. concerning the
last syll. in
--how may be changed to coincide with other measures; how is affected
by retrenchment
--confounded with iambic by several gramm. and prosodists --Strictures on CHURCH., who doubts the existence of the troch. ord.
of verse
--Troch. verse shown in its eight measures --Trochaics, Eng., the TETRAMETER the most common meas. of
--DR. CAMPB. on
--"Trochaic of One foot," account of.
Trochee, or choree, defined.
Tropes, what figures of rhetoric are so called; signif. of the term.
Trow, its signif., and where occurs; in what person and tenses read.
Truisms and senseless remarks, how to be dealt with in gram.
Tutoyant, to what extent prevalent among the French. See Youyouing, &c.
Type or character, two forms of the letters in every kind of.
U.
U, lett., which (as A, E, I, or O) names itself
--its plur. numb.
--sounds properly its own
--as self-naming, to what equivalent; requires art. a, and not an,
before it
--pronounced with borrowed sound
--long or diphthongal sound, as yu; sound of slender o or oo, after r or rh.
Unamendable imperfections sometimes found in ancient writings, remarks in relation to.
Unauthorized words, use of, as opposed to purity, PREC. concerning.
Unbecoming, adj., from participle compounded, error of using transitively words of this form; such error how corrected.
Uncertain, the part of speech left, see Equivocal, &c.
Unco-passive voice, or form, of the verb, ("Is being built,") the use of. conflicts with the older and better usage of the lang.
--the subject of, discussed by BROWN --the true principle with respect to, stated.
Underlining words, in preparing manuscripts, to denote Italics &c.
Understood, words said, in technical phrase, to be, what such, (Lat., subaudita)
Ungrammatical language by which grammar itself is professedly taught, sample from MURR.; from PINNEO; et al. e diversis, Gram. of E. Gram., passim.
Unity, as a quality of style, in what consists
--required by every sentence
--Precepts aiming at offences against. Unity, THE IDEA OF, how generally determined, in respect to a collect. noun, whether it
conveys such idea or not.
Usage, as a law of orthography for particular words --Usage, as it has been, and as it is, the advantage of an exhibition
of, by the grammarian.
Useless words, employment of, as opposed to precision.
UTTERANCE, treated
--Utterance, what, and what includes.
V.
V, name and plur. of:
--written for a number: --sound of,
Value, &c., nouns of, see Time.
Verbal or participial noun, (see Participial, &c.)
--Verbal forms used substantively, by poet pecul.
VERBS, Etymol. of;
--Verb, defined: --why so called: --a perf. definition of, why difficult to form; --CHIEF TERMS, or PRINCIP. PARTS, of an Eng. verb, named and defined. --Verbs. Classes of, with respect to their FORM, named and defined: --do., with respect to their signif., do. --(See Active-Transitive Verb, &c.)
Verbs, whole numb, of, in Eng.;
the regular, far the most numerous; account of the others
--how divided with respect to signif. in most grammars and
dictionaries; BROWN'S division
--divided by certain grammarians into act., pass., and neut.
--MURR, on the distribution of
--NIX. on do.
--Verbs, in Lat., grammarians of old differed respecting the
distribut. of
--different methods of distribut. of, by several other authors, noticed
--Verbs, most act., may be used either as trans. or as intrans.
--some may be used either in an act. or a neut. sense
--act. form of, used in a pass. sense; so also PART. in ing, ("The books continue SELLING") --Verbs, Modifications of, named --Moods of, named and defined; (see Infinitive Mood, Indic. Mood,
&c.)
--Tenses of, named and defined; (see Present Tense, Imperf. Tense,
&c.)
--Persons and numbers of, what
--Conjugations of
--how principally conjugated
--(See Conjugation) --Verbs, Irreg., List of
--simp. irreg., numb. of; whence derived
--Redundant, List of
--Defective, do.
--Verbs irreg. and redund., of what character all former lists of,
have been
--Verbs, of asking and teaching, construc. of
--whether any, in Eng., can govern two cases
--suppressed in exclamat. &c.
--Verbs, Synt. of --Verbs requiring a regimen, should not be used without an object --Verb, AGREEM. of, with its subject
--do., inferred
--do., by sylleps., in plur., title of a book
--do., in imperat. mood
--Verb of the third pers. sing. with a plur. noun of the neut. gend.,
the use of, a strange custom of the Greeks; such use not existent in
Eng.
--Verb, AGREEM. of, with infin. phrase or sentence as subject --do., with infin. subject limited, ("FOR MEN TO SEARCH their own glory, IS," &c.)
--do., with a nom. in interrog. sentences
--do., with a rel., according to the true anteced. of the pron.;
(examp. of error from DR. BLAIR)
--do., with a nom. limited by adjuncts
--do., with composite or converted subjects
--do., with each, every, one, &c., as leading words
--do., by change of nominative
--Verb, the form of, to be adapted to the style
--when requires a separate nom. expressed
--Verb, AGREEM. of, with a nom. noun collective
--do., with joint nominatives
--do., with two connected nominatives in appos.
--do., with two conn. nominatives emphatically distinguished
--do., with two conn. nominatives preceded by each, every, or no
--do., with nearest of connected nominatives, and understood to the
rest; whether the usage is proper in Eng.
--do., with connected nominatives of different persons
--do., with connected subjects, one taken affirmat. and the other
negat.
--do., with two subjects connected by as well as, but, or save --do., with connected subjects preceded by each, every, or no
--do., in ellipt. construc. of joint nominatives
--do., with distinct subject phrases connected by and
--do., with disjunct. nominatives
--do., with disagreeing nominatives connected disjunctively
--do., when connected nominatives require different forms of the verb
--do., with distinct phrases disjunct, connected
--Verbs, connected by and, or, or nor, how must agree
--discordant, how managed with respect to agreem.
--Verb, mixture of the diff. styles of, ineleg.
--diff. moods of, not to be used under the same circumstances
--when two connected terms require diff. forms of, what insertion is
necessary
--Verbs of commanding, desiring, expecting, &c., to what actions or
events refer
--of desisting, omitting, &c., with a part. following, rather than an
infin.
--of preventing, what should be made to govern --Verb, finite, punc. of
--ellips. of, shown
--derivation of, from nouns, adjectives, and verbs
--poet. peculiarities in the use of
Verbosity, as affecting strength
Verse, in oppos. to prose, what --Blank verse, as distinguished from rhyme --Verse, general sense of the term; its derivation and literal signif.; the visible form of verse --Verse, as defined by JOH., WALK., et al.; do. by WEBST. --Verse, Eng., the difficulty of treating the subject of, and from
what this arises --A verse, or line of poetry, of what consists --Verse, or poetic measure, the kinds, or orders of, named; (see Iambic Verse, Trochaic Verse, &c.) --Verse, the proper reading of
VERSIFICATION, treated
--Versification, defined --Versification, POE'S (E. A.) notions concerning; his censure of
BROWN'S former definition of; his rejection of the idea of versif.
from the principle of rhythm; his unfortunate derivat. of rhythm
from [Greek: hurithmos,] and vain attempts to explain the term: the
farrago summarily disposed of by BROWN
--EVERETT'S "System of Eng. Versification," account of, and strictures
on
Vision, or imagery, explained
Vocative case of Lat. and Gr. gram., not known in Eng.
Voice, ACTIVE, and PASSIVE, whether necessary terms in Eng. gram.
Vowel, defined --Vowels named --W and Y, when vowels; comp. --Vowel sounds, or vocal elements, the different, how produced
--what are those in Eng. --how each may be variously
expressed by letters; notation of
--Vowels, two coming together, where may be parted in syllabication.
W.
W, its name and plur. numb.
--simpler term than Double-u perhaps desirable; DR. WEBST. on the
lett.
--W, when a vowel
--with vowel foll., sound of
--before h, how pronounced
--in Eng. never used alone as a vowel
--no diphthongs or triphth. in Eng., beginning with.
Wages, noun, plur. by formation; its construe, with a verb.
Walker, J., estimate of his Critical Pronouncing Dictionary
--in his lexicography how far followed DR. JOH.
Was, contrary to usage preferred by some to were, in the imperf. sing, of the subj.
We, plur., as representing the speaker and others; how sometimes used in stead of the sing.; sometimes preferred by monarchs to I.
Webster, Dr. N., describes language as comprehending the voice of brutes
--never named the Eng. letters rightly
--his orthography as a standard; do. compared with that of DR. JOH.
--the result to himself of his various attempts to reform our orthog.;
the value of his definitions.
Weight, measure, &c., see Time.
Wert, as used in lieu of wast
--its mood not easy to determine; authorities for a various use of.
What, its class and nature
--to what usually applied; its twofold relat. explained
--its numb.; example of solec. in the use of
--as a mere adj., or as a pron. indef.
--its use both as an adj. and as a relative at the same time; do. for
who or which, ludic. and vulg.
--declined
--how to be disposed of in etymolog. parsing; how to be parsed
syntactically
--how becomes an interj.
--used appar. for an adv.; uttered exclamatorily before an adj., to be
taken as an adj., ("WHAT PARTIAL judges are our," &c.,) --followed by that, by way of pleonasm, ("WHAT I tell you in darkness, THAT," &c.,) --with but preceding, ("To find a friend, BUT WHAT" &c.,) --vulg. use of, for that
--derivation of, from Sax., shown.
Whatever or whatsoever, its peculiarities of construe., the same as those of what; its use in simp, relation
--its construc. as a double relative; whether it may be supposed
ellipt.
--its declension.
When, where, or while, in what instance not fit to follow the verb is --When, where, whither, as partaking of the nature of a pron.;
construc, of do., with antecedent nouns of time, &c., how far
allowable
--derivation of, from Anglo-Sax.
Whether, as an interrog. pron.; as a disjunc. conjunc. --conjunc. corresponsive to or
--as do., its derivation from Sax.
Which, relative
--its former use; to what objects now confined
--its use after a personal term taken by meton. for a thing; do., as
still applicable to persons
--is of all the genders, (in oppos. to MURR., WEBST., et. al.,) --is less approp. than who, in all personifications
--its construc. when taken in its discrim. sense,
--how differs from the rel. that
--BLAIR'S incorrect remarks respecting
--Which, as rel. or interrog., declined --Which, sometimes takes whose for its poss., --represents a prop. name taken merely as a name, ("Herod --WHICH is but," &c.,)
--do. nouns of mult, expressing persons, when such are strictly of the
neut. gend., ("The COMMITTEES WHICH" &c.,)
--in what cases is less approp. than that
--does not fitly represent an indicative assertion, ('"Be ATTENTIVE,
without WHICH," &c.,)
--its Sax. derivation shown
--The which, obsol., --Which, interrog., what demands,
--to what objects applied
--now used for the obsol. whether.
Whichever, whichsoever, signif. and construc. of
--declension of.
Who, relative
--to what usually applied
--has superseded which, formerly applied to persons, ("Our Father WHO art" &c.,) --to be preferred to which, in all personifications --how differs from the rel. that --Who, as rel. or interrog., declined, --Whose, use of, for the defec. poss., of which --Than whom, (see Than.) --Who, interrog., what demands
--may be the anteced. of the rel. that --Who, derivation of, from Sax.
Whoever, and whoso or whosoever, signif. and construc. of
--declens. of --Whoso and whatso, antiq., import and use of,
Whole, improp. use of, for all. ("Almost the WHOLE inhabitants," HUME.,).
Why, after nouns of cause, (see When, &c.) --Why, wherefore, therefore, their class.
Will, verb, how varied
--use of, as a principal verb.
Wis, verb, pret. wist, signif. and use of --Had I wist,
With, for and, (see Cum:) --added to adv. of direc., with emphat. imperat. ("Up WITH it"). Withal its class and construc. Without, obsol. use of, for unless or except. Withouten,
paragog. and poet. form.
Withinside of Won't, whence formed; its pronunc.
Worcester, Dr. J. E., his Universal and Critical Dictionary WORDS, treated.
--Word, defined. --Words distinguished, and the divisions of, defined. --(See Compound Word.) --Words, Rules for the figure of; --simp., when compounding is to be avoided
--when to be joined, or to be written separately
--Words, the nature of, explained
--the consid. of, as comm., and as prop.,
--brevity sought in the comm. use of
--the identity of, in what consists
--unsettled and variable usage with respect to the figure of
--Words that may constitute diff. parts of speech, their construc.
not to be left doubtf.
--the reference of, to other words, do.
--senselessly jumbled, charac. of
--entirely needless, how to be disposed of
--unintelligently misapplied, what indicates,
--Words, PUNCT. of: in pairs; alternated; put absol.; in appos.;
repeated
--Words, derivation of, treated
--most of those regarded as primitives in Eng., may be traced to
ulterior sources
--the study of, its importance
--how the knowledge of, may be promoted with respect to Eng.
--Words, the use of, as affecting Purity
--do., as affect. Propriety
--do., as affect. Precision
--do., as affect. Perspicuity
--do., as affect. Strength
Worshiper, whether properly written with a single or a double p
Worth, its class and construc.
Worthy, admits not ellips. of prep, of before obj. following
Writing, to write, what meant by
X.
X, its name and plur. num.
--format. of the plur. of nouns in --why never doubled --written for a number --its sounds
Y.
Y, its name and plur. numb.;
--borrowed first by the Romans from the Greeks, by whom called Ypsilon
--in Eng. is either a vowel or a conson.
--classed with the semivowels
--final, changed or unchanged before terminations
--do., when, by former practice, retained in verbs ending in y,
before conson. terminations
--sounds of
--in poet. format. of adjectives
Ye, nom. plur., solemn style
--its use as the obj. case
--as a mere explet. in burlesque
--its use in the lang. of tragedy
--used for thee
--in the Eng. Bible not found in the obj. case
--Ye and you, promisc. use of, in the same case and the same style,
ineleg.
Yes, yea, in a simp. affirmation, construc. and class of
--derivation of, from Anglo-Sax.
You, use of, for thou --You, with was, ("YOU WAS BUILDING,") approved by DR. WEBST. et al., as the better form for the sing. numb. --You, and VERB PLUR., in reference to one person, how to be treated in parsing. Your, facet. in conversation, and how uttered ("Dwells, like YOUR miser, sir," &c., SHAK.,) Yourself, its
pecul. of construc.
Your Majesty, your Highness, &c., see Address.
Youyouing and theethouing, history of
Z.
Z, its name and plur.
--has been called by several names; WALK., on the name --peculiarity of its ordinary form --its sounds described
Zeugma, (i.e., JUGATIO, vel CONNEXIO, Sanct.,) the various forms of, were named and noticed, but not censured, by the ancient grammarians
--constructions of adjectives, referred to the figure, ("ONE or a FEW judges,"); do. of verbs, ("But HE NOR I FEEL more," YOUNG,)
THE END OF THE INDEX,
AND OF THE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH GRAMMARS.