They are not, in general, to be separated from the rela-
tive, or the noun,

173, 274
172

They govern the objective case,
Different relations require different prepositions, though
connected by the same verb,

A copious list of errors in applying the different prepo-
sitions,

What prepositions are proper before nouns of place,
When the preposition is to be omitted,

How to be pointed,

PRONOUN. Its general nature and use,

Three kinds of pronouns,

Three persons to each number of the pronoun,
Why the third person only is marked by gender,
The Personal pronouns how declined,

The Relative pronoun and its varieties explained,
The Relative and Interrogative not distinct species,
The Adjective pronoun and its four subdivisions ex
plained,

Various opinions, respecting the Adjective pronoun,
stated,

Pronouns agree with their antecedents, in gender and
number,

173

173-175

176

191

238

55

Relatives, though in the objective case, are placed before

the verb,

Personal pronouns are unnecessary, when the noun itself
is expressed,

55

-55

56

56

5759

59

59-62

62, 63

135

135, 159

135, 136

The pronoun that is frequently applied to persons as well
as to things,

136

This is sometimes indispensible,

136

The pronoun whichsoever, &c. may be elegantly divided,

136

The objective case of the personal pronouns, is improper-

ly used instead of these and those,

136

What is improperly used for that,

137

The pronoun who is often misapplied for which,
The relative who not applicable to little children,

When the name of a person is used, merely as a name,
which should be used instead of who,

The relative often attended with ambiguity,

138, 266, 267

It is and it was, are often used in a plural construction, 138
What case of the pronoun does the interjection require,
The neuter pronoun it often refers to the masculine, and
the feminine gender,

137

137

137, 138

138

139

The pronoun it has various applications,
The relative is sometimes the nominative to the verb,
In what cases, it has a different construction,
When the pronoun is interrogative, what case follows it,
The relative may agree with either of two 'nominatives

Adjective pronouns agree in number with their nouns,
This means, that means, are correct phrases,
That refers to the former, this to the latter,
Each, every, either, refer to the singular number,
The copulative and makes no difference, with regard to
this rule,

PRONOUN. In what cases the pronoun should be omit-

ted; in what cases repeated,

PROPRIETY of language. Rules to promote it, viz.

How to be pointed,

Low expressions to be avoided,

The same word not to be used in different senses,

Words that are wanting to be supplied,

The improper use of technical terms, to be avoided,
Ambiguous words not to be used,

190

238

251

252

252

253

253

Unintelligible expressions to be avoided,

253

All words that are not fully adapted to the meaning, to

See Accent, Quantity, Emphasis, Pauses, Tones, Feet, and

Melody.

PUNCTUATION,

234-249

Varied according to the length and proportion of
the clauses,

234, 240

It may be considered as either long or short,
Properly treated as a distinct article,

234, 240

General Rules for determining the quantity of vowels, 209, 210
For the various quantity of each of the vowels, see page 20, &c,

R.

RELATION. Things related in point of time, should have

a correspondent expression,

In relating particular declarations of others, what tense
should be used,

RELATIVES. See Pronouns.

163-167

Key, p. 43, 44

Key, p. 61-67

220

REPETITION of words, when proper, when improper, see

SEMICOLON. Rules for applying it,
SENTENCES. They are of various kinds,
Long and short should be duly blended,

Their members should be proportionably arranged,

See Member and Clause.

SHALL and will. Their peculiar application,

SIMILE. Its nature and use-Directions for using it most
advantageously,

SIMPLE and compound tenses how formed,
SOUND of the letters. See Vowels and Consonants.

SPEECH. How it is formed,

STANDARD of propriety. What forms it in language,

STRENGTH of a sentence. Rules to promote it, viz.
All redundant expressions to be pruned,

92

30-32

144

271-274

The use of copulatives, relatives, &c. to be attended to, 274-277
The capital words to be judiciously disposed,

277-279

A strong assertion not to be followed by a weaker one, 279
An adverb, a preposition, &c. should not conclude the
sentence,

Where there is resemblance, or contrast, the language
should be correspondent,

The harmony of the words and members must be re-

280, 281

281, 282

garded,
282-287
SUBJUNCTIVE mood. Its true nature and extent in En-
glish,
See Mood; and also pages 82, 94, 95
SUBORDINATE rules of the Grammar, Exercises, and Key,
numbered to denote their correspondence, 127. Exercises, 50
SUBSEQUENT to the interrogative. In what cases this

term is proper,

SUBSTANTIVE phrase. See Participle.

57, 59, 140

SYLLABLES. General rules for dividing words into syl-
lables,

Words with a mixture of long and short syllables, are the
most melodious,

SYNECDOCHE. The nature of this figure,

33, 34

283

294

259-261

260, 261

125-203

SYNONYMOUS words. Injudicious use of words termed
synonymous, is the great source of a loose style,
Few, if any, words are perfectly synonymous,

SYNTAX,

See its rules under the Article, the Noun, and the other

TENSE. Six tenses belong to the English verb,
Their nature and distinctions explained at large,
They are definite or indefinite, perfect or imperfect,
TENSES. They are composed of the principal verb
and its auxiliaries; and these parts constitute one
verb,
76-78, 95, 96, 100-102

79

81, 82, 94, 95, 178-184

The present names of the tenses justifiable,
How far the tenses of the Indicative and Subjunctive
moods vary in their forms,
The tenses of verbs should exactly correspond with re-
lative actions and events,

When the present, and when the perfect, of the infini-
tive, should be used,

The same tenses are connected by conjunctions,

163

163-166

176-

TERMINATION of a verb is altered, when contingency

and futurity concur,

This point elucidated,

180, 181

Exercises 86-88. Key, 55-58
TERMS used to designate the three past tenses, supported,

79

Established terms and arrangements, not to be rejected, 78-81
THAN and but, explained at large,

187. Key, p. 61

THAT, as a relative, often useful, sometimes indispensable, 136
TIME. See Relation and Tenses.

TONES. Their nature and use,

In what respect different from Emphasis,
Rules and limitations respecting them,

U.

U. A. instead of an is to be used before words beginning

with the long u,

UNITY of a sentence.

Rules to promote it, viz.

The scene to be changed as little as possible,

218

218

219

27, 40

267

268,270

270,271

Things but slightly connected should not be crowded in-

to one sentence,

Every unnecessary parenthesis to be avoided,

V.

VARIATION. What degree of it will constitute a dis-

tinct mood of the verb,

When proper in the auxiliaries of the verb,

VERB. How divided-The division justified,
Distinction between active and neuter verbs,
The true nature of the English verb explained and
vindicated,

A few terminations of the English verb, are sufficient for
every purpose,

Conjugation explained,

The advantage to the student of conjugating the verb in
all its tenses,

The peculiar uses of conjugating the active verb with the
present participle and verb to be,

The conjugation of an English verb at large, is a regular
and beautiful exhibition,

A comprehensive list of irregular verbs,

101
102-107

Particular contractions and obsolete words to be avoided, 107

When the regular or the irregular verb is to be preferred,
Defective verbs. Their nature-A list of them,

107

108

But one conjugation of English verbs, and why,

10S

Impersonal verbs. None in the language,

Advantages and disadvantages of the mode of conjugating
the English verb,

108

109

The phrases as follows, as appears, form what are called

personal verbs,

129

Peculiar cases of difficulty in determining whether the
verb is to be in the singular, or the plural number,
Active verbs govern the objective case,

Neuter verbs govern no case,

131, 132

Irregular practice of writers, in using certain neuter verbs

as if they were active,

Active verbs sometimes improperly made neuter,

The neuter verb is generally varied like the active, but
sometimes it admits the passive form,

159

159, 160

160

160

99, 160

The verb to be is a conductor of cases, 160, 161. Exercises, 71

Passive verbs of naming, their construction,

One verb governs another in the Infinitive,
The Infinitive is often improperly used,

Verbs expressive of hope, desire, &c. are invariably follow-
ed by the present of the Infinitive,

In what cases the form of the verb is influenced by a con-
junction; in what cases it is not,

When the verb should be omitted, when re-

peated,

How it should be pointed,

161

161

162

164

See Mood, Tense, Number, Person, Participle, Auxiliary,

and Nominative Case.

VERSE.

Distinction between verse and prose,

Trochaic, Iambic, and other verses explained,
Their different effects exhibited,

VERSIFICATION. Its constituents and rules,
VOWELS and Consonants. A minute scale of them,
Their peculiar and various sounds explained and ex-
emplified,

228

221

224-227

220-233

15-17

Importance of being able to pronounce them accurately,
Vowels give softness, consonants strength, to words,
See Consonant.

20-29
17-32
282

W.

IV, shown to be sometimes a vowel sometimes a con-
sonant,

WORDS. Number of them in the English language,
The same word often forms different parts of

The little words, but, and, or, then, &c. are frequently of

the greatest importance,

274-277

The chief word or words of a sentence, how to be

placed,

277-279

Words and phrases related in point of time,

WRITING unintelligibly. The principal causes of it enu-

163-166

merated,

255, 256