SECT. 1. Of the nature of verbs in general

59

2. Of number and person

62

3. Of moods and participles

63

4. Remarks on the potential mood

66

5. Of the tenses

68

6. The conjugation of the auxiliary verbs to

have and to be

77

7. The auxiliary verbs conjugated in their

simple form; with observations on their

peculiar nature and force

8. The conjugation of regular verbs

9. Observations on passive verbs

10. Of irregular verbs

11. Of defective verbs; and of the different

ways in which verbs are conjugated

12. Theory respecting the inflections of lan-

85

90

99

101

108

110

114

117

123

128

SECT. 1. Of the various ways in which words are

derived from one another

2. A sketch of the steps, by which the En-

glish language has risen to its present

state of refinement

130

136

CHAP. 12. Number and variety of words, &c. 138

PART III.

SYNTAX.

141

170

Of the syntax of the article

Of the syntax of the noun.

Of several nouns joined by copulatives

Of nouns connected by disjunctives

Of nouns of multitude

Page.

149

151

152

Of one noun governing another in the possessive case 173

Of the syntax of the pronoun.

Of pronouns agreeing with their antecedents

154

Of the relative being nominative to the verb 159

Of the relatives preceded by nominatives of different

persons

Of the syntax of the adjective

Of the syntax of the verb.

160

161, 170

Of the verb's agreement with the nominative case

143

Of verbs active requiring the objective case

179

Of one verb governing another in the infinitive mood 183

Of verbs and words related in point of time

185

Of the syntax of the participle

192

Of the rules respecting adverbs.

196

198

199, 204

Of the position of adverbs

Of two negatives

Of the syntax of prepositions

Of the syntax of conjunctions.

Of conjunctions connecting the same moods, tenses,

and cases

Of conjunctions requiring the subjunctive mood,

Of comparisons by the conjunction than or as

Directions respecting the ellipsis

General rule of syntax

Directions for parsing

PART IV.

PROSODY.

CHAP. 1. Of pronunciation

235

CHAP. 4. Of the period

277

CHAP. 5. Of the dash, notes of interrogation and

exclamation, and the parenthesis

278

CHAP. 6. Of the apostrophe, caret, &c.

281

CHAP. 7. Directions respecting capital letters 283

CHAP. 8. Of paragraphs

285

VINDICATION OF THE STUDY OF GRAMMAR

288

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APPENDIX.

RULES AND OBSERVATIONS FOR PROMOTING PERSPI-
CUITY AND ACCURACY IN WRITING.

PART I.

Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to single

words and phrases.

PART II.

Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to the con-

struction of sentences.

Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to the

great principle which, on all occasions, decides the

propriety of language.

CHAP. 1. The nature and characters of the use

which gives law to language

CHAP. 2. The nature and use of verbal criti-

357

358

361

362

cism, with its principal canons

365

ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE THIRD OCTAVO EDITION.

THE improvements contained in the THIRD EDITION of the OCTAVO grammar, consist of many corrections and alterations of particular passages, in the first volume, and of more than forty pages of additional matter, dispersed in various parts of it: and also of a considerable modification of the first part of the second volume; namely, the Exercises which respect the nature and principles of Parsing. The last section under the head of Parsing, contains a large number of recent exercises on some of the more difficult rules of grammar: and they are exhibited in a peculiar form, calculated to give the student a radical and satisfactory view of those rules.

The author indulges a hope, that these enlargements and variations will meet the approbation of the judicious reader; and render the new edition, what he has sedulously endeavoured to make it, a material improvement of the work.

He also ventures to presume, that the numerous exemplifications, of a moral and improving nature, with which all the editions of the work are interspersed; and the short subsidiary disquisition of the present edition, as well as those of former impressions; will afford some relief to the subject of grammar, and render it less dry and uninteresting to the student. Perhaps they will be found to contribute, in some degree, to invite and encourage him to acquire an art, which, in its own nature, does not, to young minds especially, present many attractions. Holdgate, near York,-1816.