GRAMMATICAL exercises, Their use and importance, Vulgar and glaring errors totally improper, for such a 16,25,44 312 Rules to promote harmony, with regard to the members. of sentences, Sense should not be sacrificed to sound, Poetical harmony-its principles, 313 314 HYPHEN, When to be used, and when to be omitted, be- tween two nouns, Its general nature and use, 166 270 (I.)-IDIOMS of other languages may be adopted; but with proper limitations, IMPERATIVE mood. See Mood. IMPERSONAL verbs. See Verbs. INFINITIVE mood. See Moods. 85,104,110,111 INNOVATIONS in some parts of English grammar are easi- ly made, 8,86,88 They should be admitted with caution, Rules of Syntax respecting it, 210. INTERROGATION. What case follows it, The Key,67 152,214 154 Sentences contaning it parsed, 219 267,268 Sometimes used as a figure of speech, 324 Rules for applying the point, INTERROGATIVE. See pronoun and subsequent. (K)-KEY, The use of this Key to private learners, Ex. 5 Exercises, 5 (L.)-LEARNING. Its elements should be occasionally LETTERS. See Vowels and Consonants. 327,328 17 Several letters in the English alphabet superfluous, As they regard Prose. See Harmony. 156, 160 251,256 MEMBER of a sentence distinguished from a Clause, 137 258,261,262 See Arrangement and Sentences. using it, METONYMY. The nature of this figure of speech, MOODS. Their nature and variety explained, 317,319 322 74,75 The extent and limitation of English Moods, 79,104,105 The Potential mood in English supported, 78,79 The Potential mood furnished with four tenses, 91 The Potential converted into the subjunctive, 92 The Subjunctive mood when, and how, varied in its form 89,90,99,103,202 The existence of a subjunctive mood, in English proved, Various opinions of grammarians, respecting the existence, 202,203 When contingency and futurity concur, the termination Indicative mood different from the Potential, Indicative different from the Subjunctive, 79,90,103,203 198,200 78,79 75,76 MOOD. How it is governed and applied, 179 The sign to is often misapplied, 179 When the present, and when the perfect, of the infinitive Imperative mood, variously applied, Extent of the Imperative, strictly considered, 74,78,138 88,223 72 194,195 249 147. MOVEMENT and measure, how distinguished, 54,104,109,110,119 189 NEGATIVES. Two in English form an affirmative, 189 Exercises, 80,81. Key, 50 NEUTER pronoun it, very variously applied, NOMINATIVE case. Its nature explained, 152,153 53 It follows the verb, in interrogative and imperative sen- 138 139. It agrees with the verb, in number and person, 139 140 Every verb has a nominative case, except, &c. 141 The nominative is commonly placed before the verb-in 141,142 In the phrases as follows, as appears, what are the nom- 142 The nominative to the verb is sometimes not easily as- 144,145 In what instance is the relative the nominative to the 153 When there are two nominatives of different persons, to 155 Rules for pointing the nominative, 258,263 See Case. NOUNS. Their nature and divisions, 46,47 Three modes of distinguishing their gender, 48,49 But few in English, with variable terminations, 50 50,52 English nouns have but three cases, 53,56 Two successive nouns in the possessive case to be avoid- ed, Nouns are often formed by participles, They are often derived from verbs and adjectives, Singular nouns joined by a copulative, require their verbs, 144,145 146 This required even when the nouns are nearly related, 144 146 146 147 Nouns of multitude sometimes require a singular verb, This point exemplified, 147 Exercises, 55,56. Key, 24 One noun governs another in the possessive case, 169 of case, The nouns are then in apposition, This construction changed by a relative and verb, 169 169 169 Rules for applying, or omitting, the sign of the possessive case, 170,173,174 173,174 A noun may be formed by the article and participle, and 183,185 In what cases the noun is omitted, in what repeated, 208 See Case. Declension. NUMBER. The nature of it shown, How the plural number of nouns is formed, Applicable to nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 259,261,262 50 50,51 50,61,73 (0.)——OBJECTIONS. Most of those made to this system of grammar answered, OBJECTIVE case. See Case. OBSCURITY. It arises from a wrong choice of words, 277-281 And from a wrong arrangement of them, 287-292 280 OPPOSITION. Words opposed how to be pointed, 261 308 ORDER of words and members. See Arrangement. ORTHOGRAPHY, Far from being uniform, in English, Rules for forming primitive and derivative words, 37-40 See Alphabet, Syllables, Vowels and Consonants, &c. (P.)-PARAGRAPHS. Rules for dividing a work into 272 PARENTHESIS. In what cases it is proper, in what im- 269,296 270 215 Etymological parsing, Syntactical parsing, Etymological parsing table, Exercises, 1 Syntactical parsing table, Exercises, 2 76 PARTICIPLE. Its nature and properties explained, 75-77 It is not a distinct part of speech, Its use in conjugating both the active and passive verbs, 102 102,105,108 185,223 183 The participle has the same goverment as its verb, 185 The perfect participle and imperfect tense not to be con- 186 The participle with its dependencies, how to be pointed, 260 238 The closing and suspending pauses distinguished, 238,239 PERIOD. Directions for using it, PERSONIFICATION. Its nature and use, 249,251 266 322,823 PERSONS. Applicable to nouns, pronouns, & verbs, 47,61,73 61-73 The second takes place of the third, & the first of both, 146 How to avoid the confusion of The person is variable when the relative is preceded by 155 Persons of the verb when to be varied, when not, 103,195,203 274-326 See purity, propriety, precision, clearness, unity, & strength. - 138,257 |