Perversions of Eng. grammar, the design, in part, of BROWN’S code of synt, is to make intelligent judges of,
    —­Perversions, literary, Crit.  N. concerning,

Phonetics, phonography, phonotopy, BROWN’S estimate of; DR. JOH. cited,
    —­account of,
    —­TRENCH’S views of,
    —­Phonographic system of stenography, its practical value;
      phonotopy, to what may be advantageously applied,

Phrase, defined,
    —­Phrase made the subject of a verb, how to be taken,
    —­Phrases, distinct, conjunctively connected, agreem. of verb with,
    —­distinct, disjunctively connected, do.,
    —­unconnected, do.,
    —­BAD phrases, examples of, from authors,
    —­do., corrected,
    —­Phrases or clauses, ellips. of, shown,
    —­Adverbial phrase, (so termed by some,) see Adverb.

Place or position of the different parts of speech, see Article, Noun, Adjective, &c.

Pleonasm, defined,
    —­Pleonasm, when allowable with respect to a pron.,
    —­in what instances impressive and elegant; when, the vice of ill
      writing,
    —­occurs sundry times in the Bible,

Pluperfect tense, defined,
    —­Pluperf. tense, what implies when used conditionally; what, in the
      negative form of supposition,
    —­how formed in the indic. mood; do. in the potential,
    —­indic. form of, put by enall. for pluperf. of the pot.,
    —­PLUPERFECT, signif. of the term; several innovators (as BULL., BUTL.,
      et al.) have been fain to discard it,

Plural number, of nouns, how formed,
    —­of most nouns in Eng., is simple and regular,
    —­of nouns ending in a vowel preceded by a vowel,
    —­of do. in y preceded by a consonant,
    —­of do. in o preceded by a consonant,
    —­construc. of, when several persons of the same name are spoken of
      ("The Stuarts,”)
    —­of prop. names, its formation,
    —­of nouns in i, o, u, or y, preceded by a consonant,
    —­when name and title are to be used together, ("The Miss
      Bells,”)
    —­of nouns in f,
    —­of nouns not formed in s or es,
    —­of compounds,
    —­of certain compound terms, ("Ave-Maries,” &c.,)
    —­wanting to some nouns,
    —­of nouns of multitude,
    —­Plural, nouns made so by nature or art,
    —­of foreign nouns, 253,
    —­improperly formed by adding apostrophic s,
    —­of mere characters, how denoted,

Plurality, the idea of; see Unity, &c.