The Grammar of English Grammars Part 281

_Series_, of terms, proper use of the _articles_ in, --of words, how to be commaed.

_Set_ and _sit_, signif. and employment of.

_s.e.x_, to what persons ascribed; why a young child may be spoken of without distinc. of, --whether animals may be represented as of no, --inanimate objects fig. represented as having.

--_s.e.xes_, distinction of, by _words_, in diff. ways, --denoted by _terminat_. of words, --designated by _proper names_.

_Shall_, verb, how varied, --original signif. of, --explet. use of.

--_Shall_ and _will_, discriminative application of, in the fut. indic.

_Sheridan, T._, actor and orthoepist, his literary reputation; the worth of his writings.

_Side_, noun, peculiarities of usage in regard to.

_Silent_, or _mute_, when a letter is said to be.

_Silliness, literary_, Crit. N. concerning.

_Simile_, explained.

_Since_, improp. use of, for _ago_, --derivation of, from Anglo-Sax.

_Sit_ and _set_, use and signif. of.

_So_, as expressing the sense of a preced. word or phrase, --derivation of, from Sax.

--_So --as, as --so_, correspondents.

_Soever_ or _soe'er_, whether a word or only a part of an other word; how explained by WEBST.

_Solemn style_, as distinguished from the familiar, --should not be displaced from the paradigms in a grammar, --is not adapted to familiar discourse, --pres. and pret. terminations of, what, and how uttered, --examp. of, second pers. sing., negat., throughout the verb LOVE, conjugated.

_Some_, cla.s.sed, --vulg. used for _somewhat_, or _in some degree_, ("SOME _longer_,"

SANB.). _Somehow_ or _other, somewhere_ or _other_, what the construc. _Somewhere, nowhere, anywhere_, &c., their cla.s.s, and how should be written.

_Sort_, see _Kind_.

_Sound_, of a letter, commonly called its _power_, --_elementary_, of the voice, defined.

--_Sounds_, simp. or primary, numb. in Eng., --elementary, what meant by; are few in numb.; their _combinations_ may be innumerable.

--_Vowel_ sounds, or vocal elements, how produced, and where heard; what those in Eng., and how may be modified in the format. of syllables; do., how may be written, and how uttered.

--_Consonant sounds_, simp., in Eng., how many, and what; by what letters marked; in what words heard.

--_Sounds_, long and short, SIGNS used to denote them.

--_Sounds_, a knowledge of, how acquired, --importance of being early taught to p.r.o.nounce those of one's native lang.

--Pa.s.sage exemplifying _all the letters_, and _all the_ SOUNDS, in Eng.

--_Sounds of the Letters_, treated.

_Speak, to speak_, what is meant by.

_Speaker_, why often speaks of himself in the third pers., --represents himself and others by _we_, --in Eng., should mention himself last.

--The _elegant speaker_, by what distinguished.

_Species_ and _figure_ of words, what so called, --unsettled usage of the lang. with regard to what relates to the latter. _Species_ and _genus_ of things, how admits limitation by the article.

SPELLING, defined.

--_Spelling_, how to be acquired, --cause of the difficulty of its acquisition, --Rules for, --_usage_, as a law of, --uniformity and consistency in, how only can be attained.

--The _right spelling_ of a word, what, PHILOLOG. Mus.

--_Oral spelling_, how should be conducted.

--Charac. of BROWN'S rules for _spelling_.

_Spondee_, defined.

_St_, unsyllab. suffix, whether, wherever found, is a modem contrac. of the syllable _est_.

_Standards_ of English _orthog._, the books proposed as such, abound in errors and inconsistencies.

--Whether we have a system of Eng. ORTHOEPY worthy to be accounted a STANDARD.

_Stanza_, defined.

--_Stanzas_, uniformity of, in the same poem, --varieties of, --_Elegiac stanza_, described.

--_Stanzas, lyric_, examples of, --"A GOOD NAME," ("two beautiful little _stanzas_," BROWN).

_Star_, or _asterisk_, use of.

--_Three stars_, or _asterism_,

_Stenotone_, or _breve_, for what used.

_Stops_, in printing or writing, see _Points_.

_Strength_, as a quality of style, in what consists, --essentials of, --Precepts aiming at offences against.

_Strew_, whether, or not, an other mode of spelling _strow_; whether to be distinguished in utterance from do.; whether reg. or irreg.

STYLE, qualities of, treated.

--_Style_, as connected with synt., what, --differs from mere words and mere grammar; not regulated entirely by rules of construc., --what relation has to the author himself, and what shows, --general characters of, by what epithets designated.

--What must be remembered by the learner, in forming his _style_; a good _style_ how acquired.

--_Style, solemn, familiar_, &c., as used in gram., what meant by.

--(See _Solemn Style_.)

_Subaudition_, meaning of the term. _Subdisjunctive_ particle, of the Latins, expressed in Eng. by _or_ of alternat.

_Subject_ of a finite verb, what, and how may be known, --must be the NOM. CASE, --what besides a noun or p.r.o.noun may be.

--_Subject phrases_, joint, what agreements require.

--_Subject_ and _predicate_, in a.n.a.lysis. See also _Nominative Case_.

_Subjunctive mood_, defined.

--_Subj. mood_, why so called; what denotes, --differing views of grammarians in regard to the numb. and form of its tenses.

--The true _subj. mood_ rejected by some late grammarians; strictures on WELLS.

--WELD'S erroneous teaching respecting the _subj._, noticed, --CHAND. do., do.

--Chief characteristical diff. between the indic. and the _subj. mood_.

--_Subj. mood_ described, --its two tenses do., and their forms shown, in the verb LOVE, conjugated, --whether ever put after a rel. p.r.o.noun, --proper limits of, --how properly employed.

--_False subj_.

--_Subj. mood_, not necessarily governed by _if, lest_, &c.