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Relative pronouns, defined
    —Relative pronouns, and their compounds, named; declined
    —chief constructional peculiarities of
    —two faulty special rules given by the grammarians, for construc. of,
      noticed
    —construc. of, with respect to CASE
    —ellips. of, in famil. lang., ("The man I trust;") do., poet.
    —Relative and prep. governing it, when should not be omitted
    —Relative pron., place of
    —clauses, connected, employment of, with same pron. in each
    —Rel. pronouns, exclude conjunctions
    —derivat. of, from Sax.
    —poet, peculiarities with respect to. See also Who, Which, &c.

Repetition, of a noun or pronoun, what construc. 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.

Rhetoric, figure of, defined
    —Figures of rhetoric, see Figures

Rhetorical pauses, see Pauses

Rhode Island, the name how acquired; peculiarity of its application

Rhyme, defined —Rhyming syllables, their nature and quality

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. to
the old, how estimated by BROWN
    —his doctrine of a duplicity of the vocal elements, perstringed
    —his strange division of the vowels "into two parts," and conversion
      of most of them into diphthongs; his enumeration and specification of
      the alphabetic elements

S, its name and plur. numb.
    —final, in monosyllables, spell.
    —of the poss. case, occas. dropping of; the elis. how to be regarded,
      and when to be allowed
    —its sounds
    —in what words silent
    —Ss, sound of

S or es, verbal termin., DR. LOWTH'S account of

Sans, from Fr., signif., and where read

Sabaoth, see Deity

Same cases, construc. of —do., on what founded —what position of the words, admitted by the construc. —Same case, after what verbs, except those which are pass., taken —Same cases, notice of the faulty rules given by LOWTH, MURR., et al., for the construc. of

Sameness of signif., what should be that of the nom. following a verb or part. —Sameness of words, see Identity

Sapphic, verse, described
    —stanza, composition of; examp. from HOR.
    —Sapphic verse, difficulty of; Eng. Sapphics few; scansion of; "The
      Widow," of SOUTHEY, scanned
    —Eng. Sapphic, DR. WATTS'S ode, (in part.) "The Day of Judgement,"
      "attempted in"
    —HUMPH. on, cited
    —Sapphics, burlesque, examples of

Save, saving, as denoting exception, class and construc. of
    —Save, derivation of

Saxon, alphabet, some account of
    —lang., its form about the year 450; do. subsequently

Scanning, or scansion, explained
    —Why, in scanning, the principal feet are to be preferred to the
      secondary
    —The poetry of the earliest Eng. poets, not easy of scansion

Script letters, the alphabet exhibited in
    —the forms of, their adaptation to the pen

Scripture names, many discrepancies in, found in different editions of the Bible. Scriptures, see Bible

Section, mark, uses of

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. N. respecting

Self-naming letters

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. N. concerning

Sentence, defined
    —Sentence, its parts, principal and subordinate
    —Sentences, the two kinds of, named and defined
    —whether a tripartite distribut. of is expedient
    —Simple sent., false notions amongst grammarians of what constitutes
      one; the parsing of words not affected thereby
    —Sentences, simp. and comp., DR. WILS. explanation of
    —component parts of, what these are
    —whether all, can be divided into clauses
    —in what FIVE WAYS, can be analyzed
    —Sentences, simp., punct.

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. of, —explet. use of. —Shall and will, discriminative application of, in the fut. indic.

Sheridan, T., actor and orthoëpist, his literary reputation; the worth of his writings.

Side, noun, peculiarities of usage in regard to.

Silent, or mute, when a letter is said to be.

Silliness, literary, Crit. N. concerning.

Simile, explained.

Since, improp. use of, for ago, —derivation of, from Anglo-Sax.

Sit and set, use and signif. of.

So, as expressing the sense of a preced. word or phrase,
    —derivation of, from Sax.
    —So
    —as, as
    —so, correspondents.

Soever or soe'er, whether a word or only a part of an other word; how explained by WEBST.

Solemn style, as distinguished from the familiar, —should not be displaced from the paradigms in a grammar, —is not adapted to familiar discourse, —pres. and pret. terminations of, what, and how uttered, —examp. of, second pers. sing., negat., throughout the verb LOVE, conjugated.

Some, classed,
    —vulg. used for somewhat, or in some degree, ("SOME longer,"
      SANB.). Somehow or other, somewhere or other, what the
      construc. Somewhere, nowhere, anywhere, &c., their class, and how
      should be written.

Sort, see Kind.

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.
    —Sounds, long and short, SIGNS used to denote them.
    —Sounds, a knowledge of, how acquired,
    —importance of being early taught to pronounce those of one's native
      lang.
    —Passage exemplifying all the letters, and all the SOUNDS, in Eng.
    —Sounds of the Letters, treated.

Speak, to speak, what is meant by.

Speaker, why often speaks of himself in the third pers., —represents himself and others by we, —in Eng., should mention himself last. —The elegant speaker, by what distinguished.

Species and figure of words, what so called,
    —unsettled usage of the lang. with regard to what relates to the
      latter. Species and genus of things, how admits limitation by the
      article.

SPELLING, defined.
    —Spelling, how to be acquired,
    —cause of the difficulty of its acquisition,
    —Rules for,
    —usage, as a law of,
    —uniformity and consistency in, how only can be attained.
    —The right spelling of a word, what, PHILOLOG. Mus.
    —Oral spelling, how should be conducted.
    —Charac. of BROWN'S rules for spelling.

Spondee, defined.

St, unsyllab. suffix, whether, wherever found, is a modem contrac. of the syllable est.

Standards of English orthog., the books proposed as such, abound in
errors and inconsistencies.
    —Whether we have a system of Eng. ORTHOEPY worthy to be accounted a
      STANDARD.

Stanza, defined. —Stanzas, uniformity of, in the same poem, —varieties of, —Elegiac stanza, described. —Stanzas, lyric, examples of, —"A GOOD NAME," ("two beautiful little stanzas," BROWN).

Star, or asterisk, use of. —Three stars, or asterism,

Stenotone, or breve, for what used.

Stops, in printing or writing, see Points.

Strength, as a quality of style, in what consists, —essentials of, —Precepts aiming at offences against.

Strew, whether, or not, an other mode of spelling strow; whether to be distinguished in utterance from do.; whether reg. or irreg.

STYLE, qualities of, treated.
    —Style, as connected with synt., what,
    —differs from mere words and mere grammar; not regulated entirely by
      rules of construc.,
    —what relation has to the author himself, and what shows,
    —general characters of, by what epithets designated.
    —What must be remembered by the learner, in forming his style; a
      good style how acquired.
    —Style, solemn, familiar, &c., as used in gram., what meant by.
    —(See Solemn Style.)

Subaudition, meaning of the term. Subdisjunctive particle, of the Latins, expressed in Eng. by or of alternat.

Subject of a finite verb, what, and how may be known, —must be the NOM. CASE, —what besides a noun or pronoun may be. —Subject phrases, joint, what agreements require. —Subject and predicate, in analysis. See also Nominative Case.

Subjunctive mood, defined.
    —Subj. mood, why so called; what denotes,
    —differing views of grammarians in regard to the numb. and form of its
      tenses.
    —The true subj. mood rejected by some late grammarians; strictures
      on WELLS.
    —WELD'S erroneous teaching respecting the subj., noticed,
    —CHAND. do., do.
    —Chief characteristical diff. between the indic. and the subj. mood.
    —Subj. mood described,
    —its two tenses do., and their forms shown, in the verb LOVE,
      conjugated,
    —whether ever put after a rel. pronoun,
    —proper limits of,
    —how properly employed.
    —False subj.
    —Subj. mood, not necessarily governed by if, lest, &c.

Such, corresponding to that, with infin. foll., —with rel. as following, in stead of who or which.

Sui generis, what thing is thus designated.

Superlative degree, defined,
    —BROWN'S definit. of, and of the other degrees, new; the faulty
      charac. of those of MURR., shown,
    —the true nature of; how may be used; to what is applicable; the
      explanations of, by the copyists of MURR., criticised,
    —whether not applicable to two objects,
    —when employed, what construc. of the latter term should follow.
    —Double superlatives, to be avoided.
    —Superl. termination, contractions of.

Supplied, in parsing, what must be. See also Ellipsis.

Suppression, mark of, see Ellipsis.

Syllabic writing, far inferior to the alphabetic, BLAIR.

Syllabication, Rules of,
    —the doctrine of, why attended with difficulty,
    —object of; WALK. on; strictures on MULK. rules of,
    —which of the four purposes of, is preferable in spelling-books and
      dictionaries,
    —DR. LOWTH on,
    —nature of BROWN'S six Rules of; advantage of a system of, founded on
      the pronunciat.,
    —LATH. and FOWL. fictitious dilemmas in.
    —Syllabication, erroneous, samples of, from MURR., WEBST., et al.

SYLLABLES, treated. —Syllable defined. —Syllable, cannot be formed without a vowel, —cannot be broken. —Syllables, numb. of, in a word, —words denominated from their numb. of, —the ear chiefly directs in the division of words into. —(See Syllabication.) —Syllable, its quantity in poetry, —do., on what depends.

Syllepsis, explained,
    —literal signif. of the term; extended applicat. of do. by the
      grammarians and rhetoricians; BROWN, by his definition, gives it a
      more restricted applicat.; disapproves of WEBST. explanat.