Preperfect participle, defined
    —­Preperf. part., its form
    —­its nature and name,

PREPOSITIONS, Etymol. of
    —­Preposition defined
    —­importance of a right use, and a right explan. of
    —­HARR. explanation of, as cited by LOWTH, stricture on HARR.
    —­its simplicity among the parts of speech; how should be explained in
      parsing,
    —­no sufficient RULE for the synt. of, in most of the Eng. grammars,
      Prepositions and their objects, as preceding the words on which
      they depend, ("Of man’s first disobedience, &c., Sing” MILC.,)
    —­Prepositions, what it is, to find the terms of relations of;
      disput. text cited in illustration
    —­the special adaptation of; example of misuse by MURR., remarked on
    —­HARR., on the purpose for which almost all prepositions were orig.
      formed, and on the nature of their relations; his views controverted
      by BROWN,
    —­Prepositions and their governed objects, the true determination of;
      examples of joint objects, and of joint antecedents, wrong views of
      MURR. and his followers concerning this matter.
    —­Prepositions, two connected, for what different purposes used
    —­two coming together, ("FROM AMONG the just,”)
    —­Prepositions complex, what their character, and how may be
      resolved; are occasionally compounded by the hyphen
    —­Prepositions, how might be divided into classes; the inutility in
      parsing of the division into “separable and inseparable;”

HALL’S absurd idea of a divis., noticed
    —­whether “two in immediate succession require a noun to be understood
      between them,” (NUTT.)
    —­words commonly reckoned, (in, on, of, &c.,) used after infinitives
      or participles, in adverbial construc., ("Houses to eat and drink
      IN”)
    —­Prepositions, List of
    —­grammarians differ considerably in their tables of; do. concerning
      the characteristics of; what BROWN supposes, in oppos. to the
      assertion that “Every prep. requires an obj. case after it”
    —­LENN. and BULL. on “prepositions becoming adverbs,” criticised
    —­MURR. on “prepositions appearing to be adverbs,” criticised
    —­Preposition, whether it can be justly said to take a sent. for its
      object
    —­Prepositions, words in the list of, sometimes used as other parts
      of speech
    —­extension of the list of
    —­examples of the less usual, a, and others beginning with a
    —­do. of unusual ones beginning with b, c, or d
    —­unusual, quotations illustrating further the list of
    —­Preposition, RULE of synt. for the word governed by