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