The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

Antibacchy, or hypobacchy, defined

Antiquated words and modes of expression, more frequent in poetry than in prose

Antithesis, defined

Aorist, or indefinite, may be applied to imperf. tense pot. and subjunc.

Aphaeresis, defined

Apocope, defined

Apophasis, or paralipsis, explained

Apostrophe, mark, what denotes; for what sometimes used
    —­at what period introduced into the poss. case Apostrophe, figure,
      defined

Apposition, Synt.
    —­agreement between words in
    —­Apposition, what, and from whom received this name
    —­different from same cases put after verbs and participles not
      trans.; false teachings of MURR. et al. hereon
    —­the rule for, to which apposed term applied; whether words in,
      should be parsed separately
    —­common rule and definition of, wherein faulty
    —­which word of, the explanatory term; when explan. word placed
      first
    —­in what case of, either word may be taken as the explan. term,
    —­why two possessive words cannot be in
    —­two or more nouns in, where sign of possession put
    —­whether compat. with, to supply relative and verb between the apposed
      words
    —­Apposition, appar., of noun without poss. sign, with pron.
      possess. ("YOUR success as an INSTRUCTER,”)
    —­noun or pron. emphat. repeated ("Cisterns, broken CISTERNS,” &c.,)
    —­appar., of a noun to a sentence
    —­of words differing in numb. ("Go YE every MAN,”)
    —­of proper nouns with appellatives ("The river THAMES,”)
    —­act. verb followed by two words in
    —­whether requires any other agreem. than that of cases
    —­words in, punct. of
    —­of a common with a prop. name, use of capital lett.

Archaism, what

Aristotle, division of the Greek letters
    —­what neoterics wiser than; how considers the compounding or
      non-compounding of terms

Arithmetical numbers, relation of the terms in

ARRANGEMENT of words, term defined
    —­Arrang. of words, of what importance in synt.; whether it affects
      the method of parsing words

ARTICLES, Etymol. of
    —­Article, defined
    —­Article, common noun without; Eng. nouns without, taken
      indefinitely partitive
    —­words of mere being, used without
    —­Articles, how often inserted
    —­needless, to be omitted
    —­Classes of, named and defined
    —­Modificat. (an short, to a, the only,)
    —­Articles, the frequent use of; freq. misapplication of
    —­to be distinguished

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