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Rules to promote harmony in words themselves,
Rules to promote the harmony of words, with respect to
one another,

Rules to promote harmony, with regard to the members
of sentences,

Sense should not be sacrificed to sound,

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287

229-231

150, 151
246

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.
INFINITIVE mood. See Moods.

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,
When to be omitted, or repeated,

Rules of Syntax respecting it,

INTERROGATION. What case follows it,

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INTERROGATIVE. See Pronoun and Subsequent.

IRREGULAR. See Verb.

K.

KEY. The use of this Key to private learners,
Advantages of the mode of forming it,

Exercises, v

Exercises, v.

L.

LEARNING. Its elements should be occasionally blended

with moral and religious instruction,

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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.

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125

235, 237, 238, 239

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294

67, 68

71, 96

70, 71

80, 81

84

METAPHOŘ. The nature of it-Rules to be observed in
using it,

METONYMY. The nature of this figure of speech,
MOODS. Their nature and variety explained,
The extent and limitation of English Moods,
The Potential mood in English supported,

The Potential mood furnished with four tenses,
The Potential converted into the Subjunctive,

The Subjunctive mood when, and how, varied in its form,
from the Indicative,
81, 82, 90, 94, 95, 183, 184

The existence of a subjunctive mood, in English
proved,
95, 96, 183, 184
Various opinions of grammarians, respecting the existence,
nature, and extent, of the English Subjunctive mood, 183, 184
In what cases conjunctions require the Subjunctive
mood,

177, 182

When contingency and futurity concur, the termination
of the verb is varied,

Indicative mood different from the Potential,

179, 182
70, 71

Indicative different from the Subjunctive,

70, 82, 94, 95, 184

Infinitive mood. Its great simplicity,

MOOD. How it is governed and applied,
The sign to is often misapplied,

68, 69
161, 162, 163

162

When the present and when the perfect, of the infinitive,

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Extent of the Imperative, strictly considered,
A verb in this mood, is not affirmative,
The same moods connected by conjunctions,
MOVEMENT and measure, how distinguished,
MULTITUDE. Nouns of this kind operate variously on
the verb,

SO, 203
65

176, 177

227

134

N.

NEUTER pronoun it, very variously applied,

NATIONS. Different nations have used various contrivan-
ces to mark the moods, tenses, and cases, 49, 96, 100, 101, 109
NEGATIVES. Two in English form an affirmative,
Two of them are often used, instead of one,
This point elucidated,

NEUTER verb. See Verb.

NOMINATIVE case. Its nature explained,

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172

Exercises, 80, 81.

Key, 50

139

49

It follows the verb, in interrogative and imperative seu-

tences,

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It agrees with the verb, in number and person,
The infinitive mood, or part of a sentence, is often the
nominative case to a verb,

Every verb has a nominative case, except, &c.
Every nominative belongs to some verb, except, &c.
In certain circumstances, a verb between two nouns, may
have either for its nominative,

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127

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128

128

A nominative before a participle, &c. forms the case ab-
solute,

128

In the phrases as follows, as appears, what are the nomi-
natives to the verbs,

NOMINATIVE case.

The nominative to the verb is some-

times not easily ascertained,

In what instance is the relative the nominative to the verb,
When there are two nominatives of different persons, to

which should the verb apply,

The nominative is commonly placed before the verb-in
what cases after it,

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131, 132
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141

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43

44, 45

46

Three modes of distinguishing their gender,

But few in English, with variable terininations,
The number of nouns how formed,

English nouns have but three cases,

Two successive nouns in the possessive case to be
avoided,

Nouns are often formed by participles,

They are often derived from verbs and adjectives,
Singular nouns joined by a copulative, require their
verbs, &c. to be in the plural number,

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This required even when the nouns are nearly related,
Cases of difficulty stated, and resolved,

131

131, 132

When the nouns are of different persons, which is to be
preferred,

Singular nouns connected by a disjunctive, require the
verb, &c. to be in the singular number,

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133

When the disjunctive noun and pronoun are of different
persons, the verb agrees with the nearer,

133

A disjunctive between a singular and a plural noun, re-
quires the verb to be plural,

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If the nouns signify the same thing, there is no variation

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Rules for applying, or omitting, the sign of the possessive

case,

154, 158

The preposition of is frequently preferred to the sign of
the possessive case,

157, 158

A noun may be formed by the article and participle, and
by the pronoun and participle,

167, 168

NOUNS. In what cases the noun is omitted, in what re-

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See Case.

Declension.

NUMBER. The nature of it shown,

How the plural number of nouns is formed,

Applicable to nouns, pronouns, and verbs,

0.

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46

46, 47

46, 55, 50, 66

OBJECTIONS. Most of those made to this system of gram-

mar answered,

OBJECTIVE case. See Case.

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OBSCURITY. It arises from a wrong choice of words, 252-256
And from a wrong arrangement of them,
Three chief causes of writing obscurely,

OPPOSITION. Words opposed how to be pointed,
Sentiments opposed how to be expressed,

ORDER of words and members. See Arrangement.
ORTHOGRAPHY.

Far from being uniform, in English,

Rules for forming primitive and derivative words,
The orthography of Dr. Johnson not to be altered on
slight grounds,

See Alphabet, Syllables, Vowels and Consonants, &c.

262-267

255, 256

238

281

13-37

36, 37
34--37

37

P.

PARAGRAPHS. Rules for dividing a work into para-
graphs,

PARENTHESIS. In what cases it is proper, in what im-

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PARTICIPLE. Its nature and properties explained,
Perfect and passive participle distinguished,

It is not a distinct part of speech,

Its use in conjugating both the active and passive
.verbs,

The participle and its adjuncts form a substantive
phrase,

The participle has the same government as its verb,
It becomes a substantive, by means of the article,
And also by means of the pronoun,

The perfect participle and imperfect tense not to be
confounded,

The participle with its dependencies, how to be pointed,
Reasons for assigning it a distinct place in Syntax, Exercises, 75

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,

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ICLE as, is not always equivalent to the pronoun it,
Por that, or which,

130. Key, 60
RTS of speech. Variously enumerated by grammarians,
The same word forms different parts of speech. See Words.
PAUSES. Their nature, kinds, and uses,

Rules for applying them properly,

40

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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
two nominatives of different persons,

Persons of the verb when to be varied, when

not,

PERSPICUITY and accuracy,

See Purity, Propriety, Precision, Clearness, Unity, and

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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
Their kinds, divisions, and subdivisions,

Poetical harmony. See Harmony and Melody.
Poetical pauses. See Pauses.

POSITION of words. Great importance of the situation, in

which words are placed in the sentence,

55, 66

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133

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The place of adverbs, relatives, and circumstances, neces-
sary to the clearness of a sentence,

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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

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Words termed synonymous are the great source of a loose
style,

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