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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, 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.,