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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, 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, 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