Collective noun, defined.
    —­Collective nouns, forms of, sing. and plur.; how understood,
    —­gend. of, how determined,
    —­by what relative represented.
    —­Collec. noun, represented by plur. pron.,
    —­in what two ways may be taken, and with what accord of pron.; the
      plur. construc. of, under what fig. of synt. ranked by the old
      grammarians,
    —­whether with a sing. definitive, admits a plur. verb or pronoun.
    —­Collec. nouns generally admit of plur. form.
    —­Collect. noun, represented by sing. pron. neut.,
    —­uniformity of numb. to be preserved in words constructed with,
    —­agreem. of verb with,
    —­how determined whether it conveys the idea of plurality or not,
    —­strictures on the rules of ADAM, LOWTH, et. al., concerning,
    —­NIX. notion of the construc. of verb and.
    —­Coll. nouns, partitive of plur., construc. of,
    —­as expressing collections of persons, or coll. of things, which most
      often taken plurally,
    —­when not plur. in form, whether it admits of plur. adj. before it.

Colon, from what takes its name,
    —­for what used,
    —­in what year adopted in England,
    —­its utility maintained against some objectors,
    —­Rules for the use of,
    —­used by some between numb. of chap. and that of verse, in quotations
      from the Bible.

Comma, from what takes its name,
    —­what denotes,
    —­less common in Germ. than in Eng.,
    —­its ancient form,
    —­Rules for the use of,
    —­use of, in a series of words.

Commanding, desiring, expecting, &c., verbs of, to what actions or events, refer.

Commandments, the ten, how expressed as to forms of verb,
    —­by what points divided in books,
    —­example of, versified in iamb. hexameter, by DR. WATTS.

Common gender, unnecessary and improper term in Eng. gram.

Common noun, defined,
    —­when admits of no art.,
    —­with def. art. sometimes becomes proper,
    —­by personif. often do.
    —­Common nouns include the classes, collective, abstract, and
      verbal.
    —­Common nouns, their nature and numerical distribution, as
      distinguished from proper.

Comparative degree, defined.
    —­Compar. degree, why BROWN presents a new definit. of, in place of
      his former one,
    —­true nature of
    —­whether always required in a comparison of two objects
    —­with what construc. proper in exclusive comparisons, canon of BROWN
    —­Comparatives, certain, not construed with the conjunc. than
    —­double, how to be considered and treated
    —­Comparative terminations, to what adjectives not to be applied
    —­Compar. degree in Gr. and in Lat., construc. of
    —­poet. connected to the positive