and attention. The new edition, he hopes will be found The writer is sensible that, after all his endeavours to The author conceives that the occasional strictures, dispersed * HOLDGATE, NEAR YORK, 1804. CONTENTS. PART I. ORTHOGRAPHY. CHAP. I. Of letters. SECT. 1. CHAP. 2. CHAP. 3. Page. 21 Of the nature of the letters, and of PART II.ETYMOLOGY. A general view of the parts of Of the articles. : 35 37 : 41 CHAP. 1. CHAP. 2. CHAP. 3. SECT. 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. Page. 73 74 : 78 80 : 86 Of the nature of verbs in general. 70 7. 8. 10. 11. 95 : .: 108 Of irregular verbs. : : : : : 111 : : : : : 117 : : Of prepositions. : .: : CHAP. 11. Of derivation. SECT. 1. 2. : 130 Of the various ways in which words Of the syntax of the noun. Of several nouns joined by copulatives. Page. Of nouns of multitude. : : : : : : : 147 Of the syntax of the pronoun. Of pronouns agreeing with their antecedents. 148 ferent persons. ::: : : : : : : 155 Of the syntax of the adjective. : : : : : 156 Of the syntax of the verb. Of the verb's agreement with the nominative case. : : : : : : : : : : : : 139 Of the syntax of the participle. : : : : 178 : : : : 179 : : : : 183 : : : : : : 186 : : : Of the position of adverbs. Of conjunctions connecting the same moods, Of the syntax of interjections. : Directions for parsing. : : CHAP. 5. : 267 Of the period. Of the dash, notes of interroga- APPENDIX. RULES AND OBSERVATIONS FOR PROMOTING PERSPI CUITY AND ACCURACY IN WRITING. PART I. Of Perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to Of Perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to the construction of sentences. CHAP. 1. Of the clearness of a sentence. CHAP. 4. : 287 : 293 : 297 : 315 : : 327 |