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.

Tribrach, defined.

Trimeter line, iambic, the measure seldom used alone; examples of,
    —­and do., with diversifications
    —­trochaic, examples of
    —­anapestic, examples of
    —­alternated with the tetram., examp., “The Rose,” of COWP.; the same
      scanned
    —­dactylic, examples of. Triphthong, defined
    —­proper, do., the only, in Eng.
    —­improp., do.; and the improp. triphthongs named.

Trochaic verse, treated
    —­Troch. verse, the stress in
    —­nature of the single-rhymed; error of MURR. et al. concerning the
      last syll. in
    —­how may be changed to coincide with other measures; how is affected
      by retrenchment
    —­confounded with iambic by several gramm. and prosodists
    —­Strictures on CHURCH., who doubts the existence of the troch. ord.
      of verse
    —­Troch. verse shown in its eight measures
    —­Trochaics, Eng., the TETRAMETER the most common meas. of
    —­DR. CAMPB. on
    —­“Trochaic of One foot,” account of.

Trochee, or choree, defined.

Tropes, what figures of rhetoric are so called; signif. of the term.

Trow, its signif., and where occurs; in what person and tenses read.

Truisms and senseless remarks, how to be dealt with in gram.

Tutoyant, to what extent prevalent among the French.  See Youyouing, &c.

Type or character, two forms of the letters in every kind of.

U.

U, lett., which (as A, E, I, or O) names itself
    —­its plur. numb.
    —­sounds properly its own
    —­as self-naming, to what equivalent; requires art. a, and not an,
      before it
    —­pronounced with borrowed sound
    —­long or diphthongal sound, as yu; sound of slender o or oo,
      after r or rh.

Unamendable imperfections sometimes found in ancient writings, remarks in relation to.

Unauthorized words, use of, as opposed to purity, PREC. concerning.

Unbecoming, adj., from participle compounded, error of using transitively words of this form; such error how corrected.

Uncertain, the part of speech left, see Equivocal, &c.

Unco-passive voice, or form, of the verb, ("Is being built,”) the use
of. conflicts with the older and better usage of the lang.
    —­the subject of, discussed by BROWN
    —­the true principle with respect to, stated.

Underlining words, in preparing manuscripts, to denote Italics &c.

Understood, words said, in technical phrase, to be, what such, (Lat., subaudita)

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