The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (free ebook reader .txt) 📕

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