Goold Brown

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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.") ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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.) ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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 ”

“ BROWN'S strictures on do. Page:The grammar of English grammars.djvu/1097 --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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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, Page:The grammar of English grammars.djvu/1080 or part., has some noun or pron. for its object
--with two words in appos. ("Proclaim THEE KING,") --with do., neither in appos. ”

“ Page:The grammar of English grammars.djvu/1104 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Page:The grammar of English grammars.djvu/1103 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. ”

“ 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. ”