SENTENCES. They are of various kinds, SHALL and will. Their peculiar application, SIMPLE and compound tenfes how formed, SOUND of the letters. See Vowels and Consonants. SPEECH. How it is formed, See Parts of Speech. SPELLING. See Words. 137,138,257 89, 90, 98, 99 STANDARD of propriety. What forms it in language, 100 32-34 159 297-300 STRENGTH. The use of copulatives, relatives, &c. to be attend- ed to, The capital words to be judiciously disposed, 300-303 303-306 A weaker affertion not to be followed by a stronger one, 306 306-308 Where there is resemblance, or contrait, the language should be 308, 309 The harmony of the words and members must be regarded, 309-314 SUBJUNCTIVE mood. Its true nature and extent in English, er, prop. SUBSTANTIVE phrase. See Participle. 35, 36 Words with a mixture of long and short syllables, are the most SYNECDOCHE. The nature of this figure, 310 322 SYNONYMOUS words. Injudicious use of words termed synony- Few, if any, words are perfectly synonymous, SYNTAX, 284-286 285,286 See its rules under the Article, the Noun, and the other parts of fpeech. Its most comprehensive rule, 212 T. TENSE. Six tenfes belong to the English verb, 80 They are definite or indefinite, perfect or imperfect, 80-83 They are compofed of the principal verb and its auxiliaries; and The tenses of verbs fhould exactly correfpond with relative actions 179 When the present, and when the perfect, of the infinitive, fhould be 180,183 The fame tenfes are connected by conjunctions, rity concur, This point elucidated, 198, 199 Exercises, 86, 88. Key, 55,58 87 206. Key, p. 61 149 239 239 241 THAT, as a relative, often useful, fometimes indispensable, TIME. See Relation and Tenses. TONES. Their nature and use, In what refpect different from Emphasis, U. U. A instead of an is to be used before words beginning with the 29,44 long u. UNITY of a fentence. Rules to promote it, viz. The scene to be changed as little as poffible, 293 VARIATION. What degree of it will conftitute a diftinct mood When proper in the auxiliaries of the verb, VERB. How divided-The divifion juftified, 103, 104 70 The true nature of the English verb explained and vindicated, זן 71, 73, 108, 111 A few terminations of the English verb, are fufficient for every Conjugation explained, 73, 74 The advantage to the ftudent of conjugating the verb in all its 90 The peculiar ufes of conjugating the active verb with the prefent 102 Mode of conjugating a paffive verb, Obfervations on paffive verbs, 105 The conjugation of an English verb at large, is a regular and A comprehenfive lift of irregular verbs, ΙΙΟ III, 116 117 117 117 But one conjugation of English verbs, and why, 118 118 119 The phrafes as follows, as appears, form what are called imperfon- 142 Peculiar cafes of difficulty in determining whether the verb is to Neuter verbs govern no cafe, 144, 145 175 175, 176 Irregular practice of writers, in ufing certain neuter verbs as if 176 176 Active verbs fometimes improperly made neuter, The neuter verb is generally varied like the active, but fometimes Paffive verbs of naming, their conftruction, Verbs expreffive of hope, desire, &c. are invariably followed by the 181 In what cafes the form of the verb is influenced by a conjunction; in what cafes it is not, When the verb fhould be omitted, when repeated, See Mood, Tense, Number, Person, Participle, Auxiliary, and How it should be pointed, native Case. VERSE. Diftinction between verfe and profe, Their different effects exhibited, VERSIFICATION. Its conftituents and rules, VOWELS and Confonants. A minute fcale of them, 15-17 21-31 VOWELS and Confonants. Importance of being able to pronounce them accurately, Vowels give foftness, confonants strength, to words, See Consonant. 17,34 310 W. W, fhown to be fometimes a vowel, fometimes a confonant, WORDS. Number of them in the English language, This point exemplified, Rules for fpelling them, Three capital faults in ufing them, Redundant words and members to be pruned, 18, 30, 11 118 64, 120, 126, 127 Exercises, 9, 10 37-40 282 297-300 The little words, but, and, or, then, &c. are frequently of the great- eft importance, 300-303 The chief word or words of a sentence, how to be placed, 303, 306 Words and phrafes related in point of time, 280 X. X, This letter does not reprefent a fimple found, Y, in fome fituations, is a vowel, in others a confonant, 18, 30, 31 16, 31 Z, is a Semi-vowel, It has the flat found of s, Z. 19 N. B. The figures which are not accompanied by the name of any THE END. The following are a few of the numerous recommendations of MURRAY'S GRAMMAR, which have appeared in the works of different Authors. "Mr. Murray's Grammar, and Selection of lessons for reading, are the best in the English language." Walker's Elements of Elocution. Second edition. "Since the first edition of our work, we have feen with pleasure an English Grammar-English Exercises and a Key to the English Exercifes, by Mr. Lindley Murray." Edgeworth's Practical Education. Second edition. Murray's English Grammar. This is the most complete grammar of our language. My opinion is confirmed by that of the public, as this work now appears in the fourteenth edition." Kett's Elements of General Knowledge. Sixth edition. 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