ALPHABETICAL INDEX

TO THE

Grammar, Exercises, and Key.

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THE ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

AS the Grammar contains a considerable number of
positions and minor rules, which are not readily disco-
verable by the general arrangement of the work; and as
the last editions of the Exercises and Key, comprise
many critical and explanatory notes, which could not
conveniently be inserted in the Grammar; the author
conceived that an Alphabetical Index to the Grammar,
Exercises and Key, would not be unacceptable to the
reader. With this view, and in conformity with the
wishes of persons, for whose judgment he entertains
great respect, he has produced the following Index to
the three books.

In forming this work, it was not his sole design to as-
sist the student, in readily discovering any particular sub-
jects of Grammar. He wished also to express the most
important principles of the art, in short, comprehensive,
and striking sentences, calculated to stimulate the learn-
er's curiosity, and to impress the subjects more deeply
in his memory.
The author was desirous that the work
should at once form an Index to particulars, and an Epi-
tome of the chief rules and principles of the language.

The reader who consults this Index, will observe that
the references to the pages always point to the Grammar,
unless the Exercises, or the Key, are mentioned. The
Stereotype edition of the Grammar, the Twelfth of the
Exercises, and the Tenth of the Key, are the editions
referred to: and the pages of reference to each of the
books, will be the same, in every subsequent edition.

In all cases, where explanatory notes, or critical dis-
cussions, have been inserted in the Exercises or the
Key, the Index refers to the pages which contain them:
and, in a few special cases, these books are referred to,
as illustrating and exemplifying the rules. But general
references of this kind could not be made, without giv-
ing the Index too great an extent. The student may,
however, in every rule that is mentioned, readily apply
to the correspondent Exercise and Key; in which he
will always find a variety of exemplification, and, fn
many instances, extended views of the subject

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

A.

A

BSOLUTE. Cafe Abfolute-Its nature explained,

78,14%

It belongs to no verb, expreffed or implied,

140

How to be parfed,

221

How to be pointed,

261

ACCENT. Its nature and diftinctions,

224-229

Accent dignifies syllables; emphasis, words,

233

speaker's education,

By what marks fignified,

Manner of pronouncing the unaccented vowels, denotes the

ACCUSATIVE cafe. The fame as the objective,

ADDRESS to the young ftudents, on the use and abufe of their

How adjectives become nouns, and nouns adjectives, 58,166

57,58

31,32

270

53

Though the degrees of comparison are indefinite in number, yet
language requires but few of them,

59

The fuperlative of Eminence, and the superlative of Comparison,
distinguished,

Thefe pages of the Grammar refer to Collins & Co.'s Stereotype
Edition.

ADJECTIVE. Double comparatives and fuperlatives improper, 162
Adjectives having a superlative signification, do not admit of com-

parison,

Degrees of it often inaccurately applied,

163

163,164

In particular cafes, the adjective and noun fhould not be feparat-

ed,

A plural adjective pronoun will fometimes affociate with a singu
lar noun,

When placed before, when after its noun,

In what cafes to be omitted, in what repeated,
How to be pointed,

ADJECTIVE pronoun. See Pronoun.

164
164,165

165

208

259

258,263
119,121

Adverbs improperly used as adjectives,

ADJUNCTS. Their nature and punctuation,
ADVERB. Its nature, origin, and varieties,

The fame word occafionally ufed as an adverb, an adjective, or a
fubftantive,

I20. See Words.

Adverbs of time not fuperfeded by the tenfes of verbs-and

why,

This point elucidated,

122

162

Exercises, 63. Key, 46

Rules to determine when the adverb, and when the adjective,
fhould be used,

Exercises, 113

Its appropriate fituation in general,

186,187,288

The adverb never commonly precedes the verb,
The adverb where improperly ufed for in which,
Adverbs improperly used for fubftantives,
When to be omitted,

How to be pointed,

See Negatives.

188

188

188,189

210

260,264

AFFIRMATION is not the effence of the verb,
ALLEGORY. Its nature.

ALPHABET. Nature of a perfect one,
The English alphabet imperfect,
ANTITHESIS. Its nature, 323-It fhould be difcreetly used, 324
APOLOGY for the author's frequent additions to his grammatical

works,

APOSTROPHE. The nature and use of this figure,

See Characters.

Key, p. 3

323

APPOSITION. Rule refpecting the cafes of nouns in appofi-

ARTICLE. Its nature, ufe, and importance,

The article a agrees with nouns in the fingular number only:
the article the with nouns in both numbers,
Omitting or using the article a forms a nice diftinction in the

fenfe,

166

168

ARTICLE. When to be omitted, when repeated,

Article the ufed as an epithet of diftinction,
Article the is fometimes ufed inftead of the poffeffive pronoun,

168,169,207,208,276

168

169

184

32-34

It fometimes governs the participle,
ARTICULATION. The nature of it explained,
AUXILIARY verbs. Their nature, ufe, and importance,

71,78,79,85,95-99

The fame verb is sometimes an auxiliary, fometimes a princi-

ΙΟΟ

Auxiliary and principal form a compound tenfe,
The auxiliaries should, would, &c. refer occasionally to prefent,
paft, and future time,
83,91,180
AUXILIARY. The auxiliary let governs the objective cafe, 178
When to be omitted, or repeated,

209,210. Key, 66
Auxiliary words abound in English, and in other modern tongues,

See Verb.

B.

119

THE BIBLE. The prefent tranflation of it is the best standard of
the English language,

161

DR. BLAIR'S recommendation of the ftudy of grammar and com-
pofition,

6,7

C.

238,239

314

CADENCE. Its nature and how to be managed,
The close of a sentence fhould not be abrupt, or unpleafant,
CÆSURA and demi-cæfura. The nature of these poetical paufes
explained,
CAPITAL letters. Rules refpecting the use of them, 272,273
Mode of exercifing the ftudent in them,
CASE. Only three in English,

249,251

Exercises, 125
53

Mode of forming cafes in Latin, not applicable to our lan-

guage,

54

Reafons in fupport of an objective cafe attached to English

nouns,

54,56,110

The verb to be has the fame cafe before and after it,
This rule applies alfo, if the verb is not expreffed,

177
Ex. 71

Paffive verbs of naming have the fame cafe before and after
them,

178. Exercises, 7%