The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

Inflections, defined
    —­rising and falling, explained; do., as applied to questions
    —­notation of, in writing and printing
    —­the rising more numerous than the falling; predominance of the rising
      in oral lang.; the falling, for what used, COMST.
    —­what kind of rules for, have been given by writers
    —­the rising and the falling, to be used with prop. discrimination;
      what should determine the direction of
    —­Inflection, what constitutes the circumflex

Innovation extravagant, into the system of synt. or gram., a particular instance of, noticed

Inscriptions appear best in full capitals

Instead, what reckoned, and how best written

Intending, &c., verbs of, see Commanding.

Intensive nature of comparatives and superlatives, A. MURR.

Interrogative pronouns, defined
    —­what they severally demand
    —­their use and construc.
    —­in what differ from relatives
    —­are always of the third pers.
    —­declined
    —­their place in a sentence
    —­their construc. of cases, to what similar

Interrogative sentences, agreem. of verbs in

INTERJECTIONS, Etymol. of
    —­Interjection, defined
    —­derivation and signif. of the term; LOWTH’S error in describing the
      interjections
    —­Interjections, numb. of, in common use
    —­List of
    —­Interjections, the frequent use of, an indication of
      thoughtlessness; expressiveness of some interjections in earnest
      utterance, &c.
    —­should be discriminatively used
    —­chief characteristics of; referred to the class of adverbs by the
      Gr. grammarians
    —­significant words uttered as, ("Out! out!”)
    —­appar. taken substantively
    —­Synt. of
    —­absolute construc. of
    —­have no construc. with cases, as in Lat. and Gr.
    —­appar., sometimes connected to other words by a prep., or by that
    —­place of
    —­punct. of
    —­ellips. of, shown
    —­derivation of
    —­frequency of, in poet. lang.

Inversion of terms, sometimes of advantage, in respect to strength and vivacity of expression.

Irony, figure explained

Is being, with a perf. part., or the subject of the UNCO-PASSIVE form of verbs, canvassed

Ise or ize, which of these terminations to be taken in forming derivatives under Deriv. of Verbs

Ish, termination, whether it may be accounted a degree of comparison

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