Chapter CLXXVIII: Appendix: IV (2)

_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 tenses 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 sometimes 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_