Rules to promote harmony in words themselves, Rules to promote harmony, with regard to the members Sense should not be sacrificed to sound, 283 284 285 287 229-231 150, 151 Poetical harmony-its principles, HYPHEN. When to be used, and when to be omitted, be- tween two nouns, Its general nature and use, I. IDIOMS of other languages may be adopted; but with pro- per limitations, IMPERATIVE mood. See Mood. IMPERSONAL verbs. See Verbs. 77, 96, 101, 102 INNOVATIONS in some parts of English grammar are ea- sily made, They should be admitted with caution, 7, 78, 80 INSTRUCTION, moral and religious, should be occasionally blended with the elements of learning, INTERJECTION. Its nature and extent, Rules of Syntax respecting it, INTERROGATION. What case follows it, INTERROGATIVE. See Pronoun and Subsequent. IRREGULAR. See Verb. K. KEY. The use of this Key to private learners, Exercises, v Exercises, v. L. LEARNING. Its elements should be occasionally blended with moral and religious instruction, MEANS. The phrases this means and that means, vindica ted, 142-175 MELODY, harmony, and expression, with regard to versi- fication, As they regard Prose. See Harmony. MEMBER of a sentence distinguished from a Clause, Members how to be pointed, See Arrangement and Sentences. 229, 233 125 235, 237, 238, 239 289-292 294 67, 68 71, 96 70, 71 80, 81 84 METAPHOŘ. The nature of it-Rules to be observed in METONYMY. The nature of this figure of speech, The Potential mood furnished with four tenses, The Subjunctive mood when, and how, varied in its form, The existence of a subjunctive mood, in English 177, 182 When contingency and futurity concur, the termination Indicative mood different from the Potential, 179, 182 Indicative different from the Subjunctive, 70, 82, 94, 95, 184 Infinitive mood. Its great simplicity, MOOD. How it is governed and applied, 68, 69 162 When the present and when the perfect, of the infinitive, Extent of the Imperative, strictly considered, SO, 203 176, 177 227 134 N. NEUTER pronoun it, very variously applied, NATIONS. Different nations have used various contrivan- NEUTER verb. See Verb. NOMINATIVE case. Its nature explained, 172 172 Exercises, 80, 81. Key, 50 139 49 It follows the verb, in interrogative and imperative seu- tences, 126 It agrees with the verb, in number and person, Every verb has a nominative case, except, &c. 126 127 127 128 128 A nominative before a participle, &c. forms the case ab- 128 In the phrases as follows, as appears, what are the nomi- NOMINATIVE case. The nominative to the verb is some- times not easily ascertained, In what instance is the relative the nominative to the verb, which should the verb apply, The nominative is commonly placed before the verb-in 129 129, 130 131, 132 141 235, 239 43 44, 45 46 Three modes of distinguishing their gender, But few in English, with variable terininations, English nouns have but three cases, Two successive nouns in the possessive case to be Nouns are often formed by participles, They are often derived from verbs and adjectives, This required even when the nouns are nearly related, 131 131, 132 When the nouns are of different persons, which is to be Singular nouns connected by a disjunctive, require the 133 133 When the disjunctive noun and pronoun are of different 133 A disjunctive between a singular and a plural noun, re- If the nouns signify the same thing, there is no variation Rules for applying, or omitting, the sign of the possessive case, 154, 158 The preposition of is frequently preferred to the sign of 157, 158 A noun may be formed by the article and participle, and 167, 168 NOUNS. In what cases the noun is omitted, in what re- See Case. Declension. NUMBER. The nature of it shown, How the plural number of nouns is formed, Applicable to nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 0. 236, 238 46 46, 47 46, 55, 50, 66 OBJECTIONS. Most of those made to this system of gram- mar answered, OBJECTIVE case. See Case. 7 OBSCURITY. It arises from a wrong choice of words, 252-256 OPPOSITION. Words opposed how to be pointed, ORDER of words and members. See Arrangement. Far from being uniform, in English, Rules for forming primitive and derivative words, See Alphabet, Syllables, Vowels and Consonants, &c. 262-267 255, 256 238 281 13-37 36, 37 37 P. PARAGRAPHS. Rules for dividing a work into para- PARENTHESIS. In what cases it is proper, in what im- PARTICIPLE. Its nature and properties explained, It is not a distinct part of speech, Its use in conjugating both the active and passive The participle and its adjuncts form a substantive The participle has the same government as its verb, The perfect participle and imperfect tense not to be The participle with its dependencies, how to be pointed, P 68-70 68 94 94, 96, 99 168, 203 167 167 168 169 237 The closing and suspending pauses distinguished, Poetical pauses of two sorts, PERIOD. Directions for using it, PERSONIFICATION. Its nature and use, 1162 ICLE as, is not always equivalent to the pronoun it, 130. Key, 60 Rules for applying them properly, 40 215-218 216, 217 217 227-229 242 295 Three necessary in each number, PERSONS. Applicable to nouns, pronouns and verbs, 43, 55, 66 The second takes place of the third, and the first of both, The second person is the object of the imperative, The nominative and verb agree in person, How to avoid the confusion of persons, Relative and antecedent are of the same person, The person is variable when the relative is preceded by Persons of the verb when to be varied, when not, PERSPICUITY and accuracy, See Purity, Propriety, Precision, Clearness, Unity, and How to be pointed, The phrase," as follows," explained, The phrase, "every leaf and every twig," requires a sin- gular verb, POETICAL feet. Why called Feet. Formed, in English, by accented and unaccented Poetical harmony. See Harmony and Melody. POSITION of words. Great importance of the situation, in which words are placed in the sentence, 55, 66 133 80 126 133 135 141 The place of adverbs, relatives, and circumstances, neces- 263-267 See Arrangement. POSSESSIVE case. The sign of it when and where to be applied, 155-157 In what instances, both the sign and the preposition of are Words termed synonymous are the great source of a loose |