—agreem. with collective nouns
—do. with joint antecedents
—do. with connected antecedents in apposition
—do. with connected antecedents emphat. distinguished
—do. with connected antecedents preceded by each, every, or no
—do. with connected antecedents of different persons
—agreeing with implied nominatives
—agreem. with disjunct antecedents
—what agreem. with disjunct. antecedents of different persons,
numbers, and genders
—do. with antecedents taken affirmatively and negatively
—do. with two antecedents connected by as well as, &c.
—ellips. of, shown
—punct. of, without pause
—Pronouns, derivation of, from Sax.
—poet. peculiarities of
Pronunciation, importance of an early habit
of distinct
—how best taught
to children
—Pronunc.,
as distinguished from elocution, what; how differs
from
articulation
—Pronunc.
of the Eng. lang., what knowledge requires; its
difficulties;
whether we have any system of, worthy to be accounted
a
STANDARD
Proof-texts, not to be perverted in the quotation,
Crit. N.
—not quoted,
but invented, by some, in their false illustrations
of gram.
Proper names begin with capitals
—Comm. and
proper name associated, how written
—Prop. names,
derivatives from, do.
—(Names
of Deity, see Deity.)
—Prop. names,
application of rule concerning; distinc. between do.
and common appellatives
—of places, comparative
difficulty of writing them
—modern compound,
sparing use of hyphen in
—Prop. names,
what their relative importance in lang.
—structure and
signif. of; how should be written
—of plur. form,
preceded by def. art.
—Prop. name,
with def. art., acquires the import of a comm.
—Proper,
from a comm. noun personified
—Prop. names
of individuals, strictly used as such, have no plur.;
prop. name,
how made plur., and how then considered
—when they form
a plur., how form it
—of persons, generally
designate their sex
—Prop. name,
in appos. with an appellative
—represented by
which, ("Herod
—WHICH is,”
&c.)
—Prop. name
and title, when taken together in a plur. sense,
in
what form to be
written
Property, the relation of, how may be otherwise expressed than by the poss. case
Prophecy, the past tenses substituted for the fut., in the lang. of
Propositions, permanent, in what tense should be expressed
Propriety, as a quality of style, in what consists
—its oppos., impropriety,
what embraces
—Precepts aiming
at offences against