Chapter I: On Syntax in General

467. The term _syntax_ 392
468. What is _not_ syntax 392
469. What _is_ syntax 394
470. Pure syntax 395
471, 472. Mixed syntax 395
473. Figures of speech 395
474. Personification 395
475. Ellipsis 395
476. Pleonasm 395
477. Zeugma 397
478. [Greek: Pros to semainomenon] 397
479. Apposition 398
480. Collective nouns 398
481, 482. Complex forms 399
483. Convertibility 399
484. Etymological convertibility 400
485. Syntactic convertibility 400
486. Adjectives used as substantives 400
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487. Uninflected parts of speech used as such 400
488. Convertibility common in English 401

CHAPTER II.

SYNTAX OF SUBSTANTIVES.

489. Convertibility 402
490. Ellipsis 403
491. Proper names 403

CHAPTER III.

SYNTAX OF ADJECTIVES.

492. Pleonasm 404
493. Collocation 404
494. Government 404
495. _More fruitful_, &c. 405
496. _The better of the two_ 405
497. Syntax of adjectives simple 406

CHAPTER IV.

SYNTAX OF PRONOUNS.

498, 499. Syntax of pronouns important 407
500, 501. Pleonasm 407

CHAPTER V.

THE TRUE PERSONAL PRONOUNS.

502. _Pronomen reverentiae_ 409
503. _You_ and _ye_ 409
504. _Dativus ethicus_ 409
505. Reflected personal pronouns 410
506. Reflective neuter verbs 410
507. Equivocal reflectives 411

CHAPTER VI.

ON THE SYNTAX OF THE DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS, AND ON THE
PRONOUNS OF THE THIRD PERSON.

508. True demonstrative pronoun 412
509. _His mother_, _her father_ 412
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510, 511. Use of _its_ 412
512. _Take them things away_ 413
513, 514. _Hic_ and _ille_, _this_ and _that_ 413

CHAPTER VII.

ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORD _SELF_.

515. Government, apposition, composition 416
516. _Her-self_, _itself_ 416
517. _Self_ and _one_ 417
518, 519. Inflection of _self_ 418

CHAPTER VIII.

ON THE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS.

520, 521. _My_ and _mine_, &c. 419

CHAPTER IX.

THE RELATIVE PRONOUNS.

522-524. _That_, _which_, _what_ 422
525. _The man_ as _rides to market_ 423
526, 527. Plural use of _whose_ 423
528, 529. Concord of relative and antecedent 423
530. Ellipsis of the relative 424
531. Relative equivalent to demonstrative pronoun 425
Demonstrative equivalent to substantive 425
532. Omission of antecedent 426
533. [Greek: Chromai bibliois hois echo] 426
534. Relatives with complex antecedents 427

CHAPTER X.

ON THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS.

535. Direct and oblique interrogations 428
536-539. _Whom do they say that it is?_ 428-430

CHAPTER XI.

THE RECIPROCAL CONSTRUCTION.

540, 541. Structure of reciprocal expressions 431

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CHAPTER XII.

THE INDETERMINATE PRONOUNS.

542. _On dit_=_one says_ 433
543-546. _It_ and _there_ 433
_Es sind_ 434

CHAPTER XIII.

THE ARTICLES.

547. Repetition of article 435

CHAPTER XIV.

THE NUMERALS.

548. _The thousand-and-first_ 436
549. _The first two_ and _two first_ 436

CHAPTER XV.

ON VERBS IN GENERAL.

550. Transitive verbs 437
551. Auxiliary verbs 438
552. Verb substantive 438

CHAPTER XVI.

THE CONCORD OF VERBS.

553-556. Concord of person 439
557. Plural subjects with singular predicates 443
Singular subjects with plural predicates 443

CHAPTER XVII.

ON THE GOVERNMENT OF VERBS.

558, 559. _Objective_ and _modal_ government 444
560. Appositional construction 445
561. Verb and genitive case 448
562. Verb and accusative case 448
563. The partitive construction 448
564. _I believe it to be him_ 448
565. [Greek: phemi einai despotes] 449
566. _It is believed to be_ 449

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CHAPTER XVIII.

ON THE PARTICIPLES.

567. _Dying-day_ 451
568. _I am beaten_ 451

CHAPTER XIX.

ON THE MOODS.

569. The infinitive mood 452
570. Objective construction 452
570. Gerundial construction 453
571. Peculiarities of imperatives 454
572. Syntax of subjunctives 454

CHAPTER XX.

ON THE TENSES.

573. Present form habitual 455
574. Praeterite form aorist 455

CHAPTER XXI.

SYNTAX OF THE PERSONS OF VERBS.

575, 576. _I, or he am (is) wrong_ 456

CHAPTER XXII.

ON THE VOICES OF VERBS.

577. The word _hight_ 458