t nouns of multitude. Of one noun governing another in the possessive cas Of pronouns agreeing with their antecedents: Of the relative being nominative to the verb Of the relative preceded by nominatives of different p Of the Syntax of the Verb. Of the verb's agreement with the nominative case. Of one verb governing another in the infinitive moo Of the Syntax of the Participle. Of the syntax of Prepositions. Of conjunctions connecting the same moods, tenses & Of Comparisons by the Conjunction than or as. General Rule of Syntax. Directions for Parsing PART IV.-PROSODY. Chap 1. Of Pronunciation, 3. Of emphasis. 184 Chap. 1: Of the Comma 2 3 Rules and observations for promoting perspicuity and accura Chap 2 Propriety. ib. PART II Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, w the construction of sentences. Chap 1 Of the Clearness of a Sentence. Chap. 2. Of the Unity of a Sentence. ADDRESS TO YOUNG STUDENTS. ANGLISH GRAMMAR is the art of speak; and writing the English language with proety It is divided into four parts, viz. ORTHOGRAPHY, YMOLOGY, SYNTAX, and PROSODY. This division may be rendered more intelligible to the dent, by observing, in other words, that Grammar treats, et, of the form and sound of the letters, the combination etters into syllables, and syllables into words; secondly, the different sorts of words, their various modifications, I their derivation; thirdly, of the union and right order words in the formation of a sentence; and lastly, of the -t pronunciation, and poetical construction of sentences. PART I. ORTHOGRAPHY. CHAPTER 1. Of the LETTERS. ECTION 1. Of the nature of the letters, and of a perfect alphabet. Orthography teaches the nature and powers of etters, and the just method of spelling words. A letter is the first principle, or least part, of a word. The letters of the English language, called the English alphabet, are twenty-six in number. These letters are the representatives of certain rticulate sounds, the elements of the language. An articulate sound, is the sound of the human oice, formed by the organs of speech. onging to the language. Every simple sound would e its distinct character; and that character be the repentative of no other sound. But this is far from being state of the English alphabet. It has more original nds than distinct significant letters; and, consequently, ne of these letters are made to represent, not one sound me, but several sounds. This will appear by reflecting, the sounds signified by the united letters tk, sh, ng, are mentary, and have no single appropriate characters, in - alphabet; and that the letters a and u represent the Ferent sounds heard in hat, hate, hall; and in but, bull, de. To explain this subject more fully to the learners, we Il set down the characters made use of to represent all = elementary articulate sounds of our language, as nearly he manner and order of the present English alphabet, as e design of the subject will admit; and shall annex to each aracter the syllable or word, which contains its proper d distinct sound. And here it will be proper to begin th the vowels. pronounced long, may be considered as diphthon thongal vowels, our language, strictly speaking but twelve simple vowel sounds; to represen have only five distinct characters or letters. If a the same specific sound as a in fat; and u in bu as o in move, which is the opinion of some gra then there are but ten original vowel sounds in t language. The following list denotes the sounds of the being in number twenty-two. Letters denoting the simple sounds. Words con simple s ав m a8 as ཅི་ བྱ་ སྤུ་ སྐྱ་ སྤྱི་ ཙི་ ག་ ་ ་ ཅི་ in van, lo in egg, g in hop, h in kill, oa in lap, all in my, m in no, on. pin, m rap, c so, lass zed, b • Some grammarians suppose to mark only an breathing; but it appears to be a distinct sound, an particular manner, by the organs of speech. Encyclopedi |