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

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

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; specification of different modes of distribution by diff. authors —Modifications of, named; these properties how distinguished in the personal pronouns; do. how ascertained in the relat. and interrog. pronouns —Declension of; simp. personals declined; comp. personals do.; comp. relatives do. —appar. used for adverbs —Pronouns, Synt. of —Pronoun, agreem. of, with its anteced. —do., with anteced. indefinite —plur., put by enall. for the sing., agreem. of —sometimes disagreeing with the anteced. in one sense, because taking it in an other —what the main point with respect to; what application of the rule of agreem., in parsing —Pronouns, agreem. of, with their antecedents, as affected by the figures of rhetoric —place of —Pronoun, as representing a phrase or sentence —under what circumstances can agree with either of two antecedents —the parsing of, commonly requiring the application of two rules —with suppressed anteced. —needless introduction of, ("PALLAS, HER glass," BACON) —with change of numb. in the second pers., or promisc. use of ye and you —must present the same idea as the anteced., and never confound the name with the thing signified —employment of the same, with respect to connected relative clauses —in what instances the noun must be repeated, or inserted in stead of —should never be used to represent an adj., ("Be ATTENTIVE; without WHICH," &c.) —change of anteced. to accord with —agreem. with collective nouns —do. with joint antecedents —do. with connected antecedents in apposition —do. with connected antecedents emphat. distinguished —do. with connected antecedents preceded by each, every, or no —do. with connected antecedents of different persons —agreeing with implied nominatives —agreem. with disjunct antecedents —what agreem. with disjunct. antecedents of different persons, numbers, and genders —do. with antecedents taken affirmatively and negatively —do. with two antecedents connected by as well as, &c. —ellips. of, shown —punct. of, without pause —Pronouns, derivation of, from Sax. —poet. peculiarities of

Pronunciation, importance of an early habit of distinct
    —how best taught to children
    —Pronunc., as distinguished from elocution, what; how differs from
      articulation
    —Pronunc. of the Eng. lang., what knowledge requires; its
      difficulties; whether we have any system of, worthy to be accounted a
      STANDARD

Proof-texts, not to be perverted in the quotation, Crit. N.
    —not quoted, but invented, by some, in their false illustrations
      of gram.

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. noun personified —Prop. names of individuals, strictly used as such, have no plur.; prop. name, how made plur., and how then considered —when they form a plur., how form it —of persons, generally designate their sex —Prop. name, in appos. with an appellative —represented by which, ("Herod —WHICH is," &c.) —Prop. name and title, when taken together in a plur. sense, in what form to be written

Property, the relation of, how may be otherwise expressed than by the poss. case

Prophecy, the past tenses substituted for the fut., in the lang. of

Propositions, permanent, in what tense should be expressed

Propriety, as a quality of style, in what consists —its oppos., impropriety, what embraces —Precepts aiming at offences against

Prose and verse, in the composition of lang., how differ

PROSODY
    —Prosody, of what subjects treats
    —etymol. and signif. of the word
    —Prosody, meagrely and immethodically treated in the works of many
      grammarians
    —undetermined usage as to what things belong to; how treated by some
      of the old prosodists; account of SMETIUS'S treatise of; do.
      GENUENSIS'S

Prosthesis, explained

Proverbs, their elliptical character

Provincial expressions, use of, as opposed to purity

PUNCTUATION, arranged under the head of Prosody
    —Punct., what
    —principal marks of, named and shown; what they severally denote
    —RULES of: for Comma; for Semicolon; for Colon; for Period; for
      Dash; for Eroteme; for Ecphoneme; for Curves
    —description of the other marks of
    —(See Comma, Semicolon, &c.)
    —Punct., the present system of, in Eng., common to many languages
    —why often found diverse, in diff. editions and diff. versions of the
      same work
    —duty of writers in respect to, and of publishers in reproducing
      ancient books
    —some account of the orig. and prog. of
    —"improvement" in, which is no improvement
    —confused and discordant explanations, by some, of certain of the
      marks of

Purity, as a quality of style, in what consists
    —Precepts aiming at offences against

Pyrrhic, defined

Q, its name and plur. numb. —has no sound peculiar to itself; its power —is always followed by u

Quakers, or Friends, their style of address, see Friends

Qualities of style, treated —See Style Quantity, or time in pronunciation, explained —as defined by the lexicographers —its effect in the prolation of sounds —WALKER'S views of, unsatisfac. to BROWN —as regulated by emphasis, MURR. —Quant. of a syll., how commonly explained —by what marks may be indicated —Quantities poetic, how denominated, and how proportioned —What quantity coincides with accent or emphasis —Quantity, on what depends —where variable, and where fixed, in Eng. —Crit. observations on accent and quantity —Quantity, its distinction from accent —Accent and quantity, differing views of authors relative to —Quantity, impropriety of affirming it to be the same as accent —DR. JOH. identification of accent with; such, also, that of others; (not so HARRIS;) NOEHD. rightly defines; so FISK, (in Eschenb. Man. Class. Lit.,) et al. —our grammarians seem not to have understood the distinc. of long and short, e. g., FISHER; so SHERID., WALK., MURR., et al. —CHAND. absurd and confused scheme of, noticed —suggestion of WEBST. on, approved

Questions, can be asked only in the indic. or the pot. mood
    —direct, to be marked by the eroteme
    —united, how to be marked
    —indirect, do.
    —a series of, how may be united and marked
    —exclamatory, how to be marked
    —Question, mentioned in due form, how marked
    —declaratively put, how uttered and marked
    —in Spanish, doubly marked, ("¿Quien llama?";) in Greek, how

Quite, with art. and adj., construc. how differs according to position of art.

Quotation, direct, first word of, written with capital —Quotations of proof-texts, &c., should be literally given —dependent, separated from say, &c., by comma —indep., preceded by colon —Quotat. within a quotat., how usually marked

Quoth and quod, signif. and use of, in ludicrous lang. or in the old writers

R, name and plur. numb. —of the class liquids —sound of; do., how can be varied in utterance —what faults to be avoided in do. —DR. JOH. account of; WALK. do.

Radicals, separable and inseparable, what are so called in Eng. derivation

Rath, adv., used only in the compar. deg. —Rather, with the exclusive term of comparis. introduced by than —derivation of

Reading, to read, in gram., what the signif. of
    —READ, verb, CONJUGATED affirmatively in Comp. Form

Reciprocal terms, reciprocals, what pronom. adjectives may be so termed
    —Reciprocals, EACH OTHER, ONE AN OTHER, their nature and import
    —misapplicat. of, frequent in books; WEBST. errs in the signif. and
      applicat. of other. See also Other

Reciprocal or reflected verbs, constructions in imitation of the French

Recurrence of a word in different senses, a fault opposed to propriety

Redundant verb, defined
    —Redund. verbs, why made a separate class
    —treated
    —List of

Reference, marks of, ASTERISK, OBELISK, &c., shown; in what order are
introduced
    —what other signs of, may be used. Reference, doubtful, Crit. N.
      concerning

Reformers of the Eng. alphabet and orthog., some account of

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.; how the
      terms may be ascertained