IN D E X.

PART I.

Derivations from names of persons, etc., | Labials, 5, 6.
138.

Language, what it is, 3.
from names of places, 142.

spoken and written, 3.
of words disguised in form, 145. Latin prefixes, 107.
of words greatly changed in meaning, roots, 131.
152.

suffixes to adjectives, 122.
Diphthongs, 5.

to nouns, 118.

to verbs, 125.
English inseparable prefixes, 104.

Letters, grammar of, 7.
roots and branches, 128.

redundant, 8.
separable prefixes, 105
suffixes to adjectives, 115

Moods, 38.
to adverbs, 117.

syntax of, 80.
to nouns, 112.

Mutes, 5, 6.
to verbs, 118.
English language, grammar of, 4.

Nominative case, 20.
origin and development of, 4.

absolute, 66.
Etymology, 5, 8-63.

of address, 92.
Extension of predicate, 90.

syntax of, 64.

Nouns, 9.
Factitive object, 22.

abstract, 10.
French derivations, etc., included under classification of, 9.
Latin.

class-names, 10.
Functions, words known by their, 61.

collective, 10.

common, 10.
Gender, 11.

compound, formation of, 100.
indicated by different words, 14.

English suffixes to, 112.
indicated by prefixes, 13.

inflexions of, 11.
indicated by suffixes, 12.

Latin and French suffixes to, 118.
Latin and French suffixes of, 13.
Gerund, 39.

syntax of, 64-71.
Gerundial infinitive, 82.

Number of nouns, 15.
Government of verbs, 78.

of verbs, 42.
Grammar, 4.

Numeral adjectives, 29.
of letters, 7.

Numerals, 30.
of sounds, 5.
of words, 8-63.

Object, cognate, 22.
parts of, 4

factitive, 22.
Greek prefixes, 110.

reflexive, 22.
roots, 136.

Objective case, 22.
suffixes, 125.

syntax of, 68.
Gutturals, 5, 6.

Ordinal numerals, 29.

Orthography, 5.
Have, conjugation of, 49.

Palatals, 6.
Inflexion of adjectives, 31.

Participle, 40.
of nouns, 11.

Passive voice, 37.
of pronouns, 24, 25.

Person of verbs, 42.
of verbs, 36.

Persons, words derived from names of,
Inseparable prefixes, English, 104.

138.
Interjections, 60.

Places, words derived from names of,
Interrogative pronouns, 25.

142.
Intransitive verbs, 35.

Plurals, false, 17.
Irregular weak verbs, 46.

foreign, 18.

modes of forming, 19.
Kinds of words, 8.

of compound words, 19.
known by functions, 61.

treated as singulars, 18.

proper, 9.

PART II.

Abstract versus concrete, 167.

Epigram, 166.
Accents in verse, 178, 179.

Exaggerated langtiage, 170.
Accurate English, 162.

Exaggeration (hyperbole), 175.
Admiration, point of, 172.

Exclamation, mark of, 165.
Adverb, position of the, 169.
Alexandrine, 183.

Figures of speech, 173.
Allegory, 175.

Flowing English, 163.
Amphibrach, 180.

Foot (in verse), 179.
Amphibrachic tetrameter, 181.

Full stop, 171.
Anapæst, 180.
Anapæstic tetrameter, 184.

Good English, 160.
And which, 170.
Antecedent and Relative, to be clearly Hackneyed phrases, 168.
connected, 170.

Half-rhymes, 186.
Antithesis, 166.

“Happy Life, The,”-paraphrased, 177.

Heroic couplet, 188.
Ballad metre, 182.

verse, 181.
Blank verse, 181.

Hexameter, 181.
Brevity, 163.

iambic, 182.

Hyperbole (exaggeration), 175.
Cæsura, 187.

Hypermetrical lines, 185.
Circumlocution, 169.
Clearness, 102.

Iambic hexameter, 182.
Coleridge's examples and descriptions of pentameter, 181, 182.
different metres, 185.

tetrameter, 181, 182.
Colon, 171.

trimeter, 181.
Comma, 172.

Iambus, 179.
Compactness, 163.

Imperative mood, the use of, in composi.
Composition, hints on, 159.

tion, 165.
cautions, general, 168.

Interrogation, point of, 172.
special, 169.

Interrogative forın (for emphasis), 165.
directions, general, 160.

Inversion, 164.
Concrete versus abstract, 167.
Conjunctions, omission of, 165.

Loose sentence, 164.
Couplet, 188.

Metaphor, 174.
Dactyl, 180.

Metonymy,

175.
Dactylic dimeter, 184.

Metres, examples and descriptions of the
tetrameter, 184.

different, by Coleridge, 185.
Dash, 172.

Misplaced phrases, 171.
Defective lines, 185.

Mixed metaphors, 169.
Dependent and principal sentences, not
to be mixed up, 170.

Octave (ottava rima), 188.
Detail, 108.

(in the sonnet), 189.
Dimeter, dactylic, 184.

Octometer, trochaic, 183.
Distinctness of style, 167.

Paraphrase of “The Happy Life," 177.
Elegiac verse, 188.

Paraphrasing, 176.
Emphasis, 164.

Parenthesis, 172.
English, accurate, 162.

Participles, management of, 169.
flowing, 163,

present, 169.
good, 160.

Pentameter, 181, 182.
Period (full stop), 171,

pure, 161,

Period (sentence), 163, 164.

Subject of sentence, not to be changed,
Periphrasis, 165.

170.
Personification, 174.

Suspense, 166.
Principal and dependent sentences, not Synecdoché, 175.
to be mixed up, 170.

Synonyms, 162.
Pronouns, management of, 168.
Prosody (grammar of verse), 178-185. Tautology, 169.
Punctuation, 171.

Tetrameter, 181.
Pure English, 161.

amphibrachic, 184.

anapæstic, 184.
Quatrain, 188.

dactylic, 184.

iambic, 181, 182.
Relative and antecedent, to be clearly trochaic, 183.
connected, 170.

That and who distinguished, 170.
Repetition, 165, 166.

Trimeter, 181.
Rhyme, 186.

Triplet, 188.
Rhythm, to be cultivated by reading tetrameter, 183.
aloud, 163.

Trochaic octometer, 183.

Trochee, 179.
Semicolon, 171.
Service inetre, 182.

Unrhymed (blank) verse, 181.
Sestette, 189.
Sextant, 188.

Vague sentence, contrasted with specific,
Simile, 173.

167.
Simplicity, 162.

Verbosity, 163.
Skeleton of theme to be written, 160. Verse, different from Prose in two things,
Sonnet, 189.

178.
Specification, 167.

grammar of (Prosody), 178-185.
Spenserian stanza, 188.
Spondee, 185.

Which and and which, 170.
Stanza, 188.

Who and that distinguished, 170.