The Grammar of English Grammars Part 279

_Priscian_, ancient grammarian, delivers the names of most of the Lat.

letters

_Progressive_ form of a verb, see _Compound_ &c.

_p.r.o.nominal adjectives_, see _Adjectives, p.r.o.nominal_

p.r.o.nOUNS, Etymol. of --_p.r.o.noun_, definition of --_p.r.o.nouns_ in Eng., number of, and their variations --nature of the representation by; are put substantively, relatively, or adjectively; difference in these three modes of subst.i.tution --Cla.s.ses of, named, and defined; (see _Personal p.r.o.noun, Relative p.r.o.n._, and _Interrogative p.r.o.n_.) --_p.r.o.nouns, compound_, constructional peculiarities of --_p.r.o.nouns_, faultiness and discordance of most Eng. grammars, with respect to the cla.s.sification and treatment of; specification of different modes of distribution by diff. authors --Modifications of, named; these properties how distinguished in the personal p.r.o.nouns; do. how ascertained in the relat. and interrog.

p.r.o.nouns --Declension of; simp. personals declined; comp. personals do.; comp.

relatives do.

--appar. used for adverbs --_p.r.o.nouns_, Synt. of --_p.r.o.noun_, agreem. of, with its anteced.

--do., with anteced. indefinite --plur., put by enall. for the sing., agreem. of --sometimes disagreeing with the anteced. in one sense, because taking it in an other --what the main point with respect to; what application of the rule of agreem., in parsing --_p.r.o.nouns_, agreem. of, with their antecedents, as affected by the figures of rhetoric --place of --_p.r.o.noun_, as representing a phrase or sentence --under what circ.u.mstances can agree with either of two antecedents --the parsing of, commonly requiring the application of two rules --with suppressed anteced.

--needless introduction of, ("PALLAS, HER _gla.s.s_," BACON) --with change of numb. in the second pers., or promisc. use of _ye_ and _you_ --must present the same idea as the anteced., and never confound the name with the thing signified --employment of _the same_, with respect to connected relative clauses --in what instances the _noun_ must be repeated, or inserted in stead of --should never be used to represent an adj., ("_Be_ ATTENTIVE; _without_ WHICH," &c.) --change of _anteced._ to accord with --agreem. with collective nouns --do. with joint antecedents --do. with connected antecedents in apposition --do. with connected antecedents emphat. distinguished --do. with connected antecedents preceded by _each, every_, or _no_ --do. with connected antecedents of different persons --agreeing with implied nominatives --agreem. with disjunct antecedents --what agreem. with disjunct. antecedents of different persons, numbers, and genders --do. with antecedents taken affirmatively and negatively --do. with two antecedents connected by _as well as_, &c.

--ellips. of, shown --punct. of, without pause --_p.r.o.nouns_, derivation of, from Sax.

--poet. peculiarities of

_p.r.o.nunciation_, importance of an early habit of distinct --how best taught to children --_p.r.o.nunc._, as distinguished from elocution, what; how differs from articulation --_p.r.o.nunc._ of the Eng. lang., what knowledge requires; its difficulties; whether we have any system of, worthy to be accounted a STANDARD

_Proof-texts_, not to be perverted in the quotation, Crit. N.

--not _quoted_, but _invented_, by some, in their false ill.u.s.trations of gram.

_Proper names_ begin with capitals --_Comm._ and _proper name_ a.s.sociated, how written --_Prop. names_, derivatives from, do.

--(_Names_ of Deity, see _Deity_.) --_Prop. names_, application of rule concerning; distinc. between do.

and common appellatives --of places, comparative difficulty of writing them --modern compound, sparing use of hyphen in --_Prop. names_, what their relative importance in lang.

--structure and signif. of; how should be written --of plur. form, preceded by def. art.

--_Prop. name_, with def. art., acquires the import of a comm.

--_Proper_, from a comm. noun personified --_Prop. names_ of individuals, strictly used as such, have no plur.; _prop. name_, how made plur., and how then considered --when they form a plur., how form it --of persons, generally designate their s.e.x --_Prop. name_, in appos. with an appellative --represented by _which_, ("_Herod_ --WHICH _is_," &c.) --_Prop. name_ and _t.i.tle_, when taken together in a plur. sense, in what form to be written

_Property_, the relation of, how may be otherwise expressed than by the poss. case

_Prophecy_, the past tenses subst.i.tuted for the fut., in the lang. of

_Propositions_, permanent, in what tense should be expressed

_Propriety_, as a quality of style, in what consists --its oppos., impropriety, what embraces --Precepts aiming at offences against

_Prose_ and verse, in the composition of lang., how differ

PROSODY --_Prosody_, of what subjects treats --etymol. and signif. of the word --_Prosody_, meagrely and immethodically treated in the works of many grammarians --undetermined usage as to what things belong to; how treated by some of the old prosodists; account of SMETIUS'S treatise of; do.

GENUENSIS'S

_Prosthesis_, explained

_Proverbs_, their elliptical character

_Provincial_ expressions, use of, as opposed to purity

PUNCTUATION, arranged under the head of Prosody --_Punct._, what --princ.i.p.al marks of, named and shown; what they severally denote --RULES _of_: for Comma; for Semicolon; for Colon; for Period; for Dash; for Eroteme; for Ecphoneme; for Curves --description of the _other marks_ of --(See _Comma, Semicolon_, &c.) --_Punct._, the present system of, in Eng., common to many languages --why often found diverse, in diff. editions and diff. versions of the same work --duty of writers in respect to, and of publishers in reproducing ancient books --some account of the orig. and prog. of --"improvement" in, which is no improvement --confused and discordant explanations, by some, of certain of the marks of

_Purity_, as a quality of style, in what consists --Precepts aiming at offences against

_Pyrrhic_, defined

Q.

Q, its name and plur. numb.

--has no sound peculiar to itself; its power --is always followed by _u_

_Quakers_, or Friends, their style of address, see _Friends_

_Qualities_ of style, treated --See _Style_ _Quant.i.ty_, or _time_ in p.r.o.nunciation, explained --as defined by the lexicographers --its effect in the prolation of sounds --WALKER'S views of, unsatisfac. to BROWN --as regulated by emphasis, MURR.

--_Quant_. of a syll., how commonly explained --by what marks may be indicated --_Quant.i.ties poetic_, how denominated, and how proportioned --What _quant.i.ty_ coincides with accent or emphasis --_Quant.i.ty_, on what depends --where variable, and where fixed, in Eng.

--Crit. observations on accent and _quant.i.ty_ --_Quant.i.ty_, its distinction from _accent_ --Accent and _quant.i.ty_, differing views of authors relative to --_Quant.i.ty_, impropriety of affirming it to be the same as accent --DR. JOH. identification of accent with; such, also, that of others; (not so HARRIS;) NOEHD. rightly defines; so FISK, (in Eschenb. Man.

Cla.s.s. Lit.,) _et al_.

--our grammarians seem not to have understood the distinc. of long and short, e. g., FISHER; so SHERID., WALK., MURR., _et al_.

--CHAND. absurd and confused scheme of, noticed --suggestion of WEBST. on, approved

_Questions_, can be asked only in the indic. or the pot. mood --direct, to be marked by the eroteme --united, how to be marked --indirect, do.

--a series of, how may be united and marked --exclamatory, how to be marked --_Question, mentioned_ in due form, how marked --declaratively put, how uttered and marked --in _Spanish_, doubly marked, ("Quien llama?";) in Greek, how

_Quite_, with art. and adj., construc. how differs according to position of art.

_Quotation_, direct, first word of, written with capital --_Quotations_ of proof-texts, &c., should be literally given --dependent, separated from _say_, &c., by comma --indep., preceded by colon --_Quotat. within a quotat._, how usually marked

_Quoth_ and _quod_, signif. and use of, in ludicrous lang. or in the old writers

R.

R, name and plur. numb.

--of the cla.s.s liquids --sound of; do., how can be varied in utterance --what faults to be avoided in do.

--DR. JOH. account of; WALK. do.

_Radicals_, separable and inseparable, what are so called in Eng.

derivation

_Rath_, adv., used only in the compar. deg.

--_Rather_, with the exclusive term of comparis. introduced by _than_ --derivation of

_Reading, to read_, in gram., what the signif. of --READ, verb, CONJUGATED _affirmatively_ in Comp. Form

_Reciprocal terms, reciprocals_, what p.r.o.nom. adjectives may be so termed --_Reciprocals_, EACH OTHER, ONE AN OTHER, their nature and import --misapplicat. of, frequent in books; WEBST. errs in the signif. and applicat. of _other_. See also _Other_

_Reciprocal_ or reflected verbs, constructions in imitation of the French

_Recurrence_ of a word in different senses, a fault opposed to propriety

_Redundant verb_, defined --_Redund. verbs_, why made a separate cla.s.s --treated --List of