The Grammar of English Grammars

by Goold Brown

C.

C, name and plur. numb. of —sounds of —where silent —with cedilla placed under (ç) —written for a number —Ch, sounds of —Arch, sound of, before a vowel, and before a conson. —Ck, final, for double c

Cadence, explained —faulty, precept against, by RIPP. —MURR. direction concerning

Cadmus, carried the Phoenician alphabet into Greece

Cæsura, signif. and application of
—Cæsural or divisional pause; demi-cæsuras, or minor rests;
(see Pauses)

Can, verb, varied
—derivation and signif. of
—Can not and cannot, with what distinction used
—Cannot, with a verb of avoiding, or with BUT
—Can, could, would, as principal verbs, by poet. use

Capital letters, capitals, for what used; how marked for the printer, in
manuscript
—what things are exhibited wholly in,
—Rules for the use of,
—use of, in comp. prop, names,
—needless,
—lavish use of, its effect,
—discrepancies with respect to, abound in books.

Cardinal numeral, distinguished from its corresponding ordinal,
—should follow the ordinal, in a specification of a part of a
series, ("The first TWO,").

Caret, in what used, and for what purpose.

Cases, in grammar, what,
—named and defined,
—nom. and obj., alike in form, how distinguished,
—on what founded, and to what parts of speech belong.
—(See Nominative Case, &c.)
—Cases, whether infinitives, participles, &c., can take the nature
of,
—what is the proper number of, to be assigned to Eng. nouns,
—what authorities for the true doctrine of three,
—discordant doctrine of sundry grammarians concerning the numb, of,
—WEBST. and MURR. opposite instructions concerning do.
—Cases, whether personal pronouns have two, only,
—rules for the construc. of,
—whether a noun may be in two, at once,
—whether Eng. verbs govern two,
—whether in Eng., as in Lat., when a verb governs two, the pass.
retains the latter case.
—Cases, same, (see Same Cases.)
—Cases, what kinds of words take different, after them.
—Case of noun or pron. after part. governed by prep., whether
undetermined; err. of SANB. and BULL. hereon expos.; GREE. false
teaching, do.,
—doubtful, after participles, in what kind of examples found; canon
concerning do.

Case, technical term with printers, ("Letters of the lower case.")

Catachresis, how commonly explained, and what sort of fig.

Catalectic, when a measure is said to be.

Cedilla, from whom borrowed, and how applied.

Change, of numb. in the second pers., ineleg.,
—of the connective of two nominatives appar. requiring a plur. verb,
canon concerning.
—Changing the scene, or deserting the principal subj., in a sent.,
PREC. against.

Chaucer's imperfect measures, DRYDEN'S remarks on.

Cherokee alphabet, some account of.

Cherubim and seraphim, Heb. plurals, sometimes mistaken for singulars.

Chief terms, or principal parts, of a verb, necessary to be first ascertained. —Chief words may be distinguished by capitals.

Circumflex, inflection, (see Inflection,) —mark, use of.

Classes under the parts of speech, what meant by.

Classification of words, explanations to assist beginners in making, —DR. WILSON'S observations on.

Clause, see Member.

Climax, defined.

Cognomination, relation of the article, in instances of, ("Alexander the Great").

Collective noun, defined.
—Collective nouns, forms of, sing. and plur.; how understood,
—gend. of, how determined,
—by what relative represented.
—Collec. noun, represented by plur. pron.,
—in what two ways may be taken, and with what accord of pron.; the
plur. construc. of, under what fig. of synt. ranked by the old
grammarians,
—whether with a sing. definitive, admits a plur. verb or pronoun.
—Collec. nouns generally admit of plur. form.
—Collect. noun, represented by sing. pron. neut.,
—uniformity of numb. to be preserved in words constructed with,
—agreem. of verb with,
—how determined whether it conveys the idea of plurality or not,
—strictures on the rules of ADAM, LOWTH, et. al., concerning,
—NIX. notion of the construc. of verb and.
—Coll. nouns, partitive of plur., construc. of,
—as expressing collections of persons, or coll. of things, which most
often taken plurally,
—when not plur. in form, whether it admits of plur. adj. before it.

Colon, from what takes its name,
—for what used,
—in what year adopted in England,
—its utility maintained against some objectors,
—Rules for the use of,
—used by some between numb. of chap. and that of verse, in quotations
from the Bible.

Comma, from what takes its name, —what denotes, —less common in Germ. than in Eng., —its ancient form, —Rules for the use of, —use of, in a series of words.

Commanding, desiring, expecting, &c., verbs of, to what actions or events, refer.

Commandments, the ten, how expressed as to forms of verb, —by what points divided in books, —example of, versified in iamb. hexameter, by DR. WATTS.

Common gender, unnecessary and improper term in Eng. gram.

Common noun, defined,
—when admits of no art.,
—with def. art. sometimes becomes proper,
—by personif. often do.
—Common nouns include the classes, collective, abstract, and
verbal.
—Common nouns, their nature and numerical distribution, as
distinguished from proper.

Comparative degree, defined.
—Compar. degree, why BROWN presents a new definit. of, in place of
his former one,
—true nature of
—whether always required in a comparison of two objects
—with what construc. proper in exclusive comparisons, canon of BROWN
—Comparatives, certain, not construed with the conjunc. than
—double, how to be considered and treated
—Comparative terminations, to what adjectives not to be applied
—Compar. degree in Gr. and in Lat., construc. of
—poet. connected to the positive

Comparison, defined
—Comparison, degrees of, named and defined
—what adjectives admit not of
—CHURCH. on the different, (and BROWN on CHURCH.)
—character of BROWN'S definitions of; do. of those of MURR. et al.,
exhibited
—MURR. definitions of, criticised
—relative nature of
—Comparison, regular
—to what adjectives applicable
—when preferable to the comparison by adverbs
—Comparison, HARR. on the degrees of; the positive a degree
—(in oppos. to HARR. et al.)
—Comparison of equality, what; sometimes involves solec.,
("Nothing SO uncertain AS,")
—Comparison of equality and of ineq., canon on
—Comparison, adaptation of the terms of, to the deg. to be expressed
—belongs chiefly to comm. adjectives
—Comparis., irregular
—Comparis., whether to be mentioned in parsing adverbs
—inclusive, and exclusive
—Comparisons, extra, their impropriety
—Crit. N. on, See also Comparative Degree, and Superlative Degree.

Comparison or contrast of things, the resemblance or opposition how rendered more striking

Complex prepositions, how may be formed

Composite orders of verse, what uniformity of construc. they require —Composite verse —description of; why requires rhythm —kinds of, unlimited; which preferable —liable to doubtful scansion

Composition, the frequent practice of, necessary, in order to acquire a good style, Composition of language, two kinds of

Compound or progressive form of verb, how made
—exemplified in the verb READ, conjugated, what verbs do not admit of;
what it implies
—verbs of, having a pass. signif.

Compound word, defined, Compounds, permanent, consolidated; temporary,
formed by hyphen
—Comp. words, not to be needlessly broken
—two or more, not to be split
—when to be written with hyphen; when without it
—Compounding of words, unsettled usage respecting; manner of, in
Lat. and Gr.; arbitrary practice of, in Eng., its effect
—does not necessarily preclude their separate use
—propriety of, sometimes difficult to decide
—Compounds, orthog. of
—Compounding the words of a reg. phrase, its impropriety
—Compound adjectives, see Adjectives, Compound.

Concord, (see Agreement.)
—Concords and governments, examples of false ones from the
grammarians
—in Lat., diversely enumerated by the Lat. grammarians

_Concrete _terms for abstract qualities, poet. use of

Confusion of senses, in use of pron., to be avoided

Conjugation of a verb, defined —what some teachers choose to understand by —Conjugating a verb, four ways of, named —Conjugation of an Eng. verb, what the simplest form of —Conjug. of verbs, shown in five Examples —(See also Compound or Progressive, &c.) —Conjugat. negative, how made, interrogative, do. —interrog. and negative, do.

CONJUNCTIONS, Etymol. of
—Conjunction, defined
—Conjunctions, how differ from other connectives
—nature and office of; R. F. MOTT quot.
—nature of the connexions made by
—how many in common use
—how parsed
—as "connecting the same moods, &c.," strictures on the doctrine of
MURR. et al., concerning
—Conjunctions, classes of, named and defined
—(See Copulative Conjunction, Disjunc. Conj., and Corresp.
Conjunc.)
—Conjunctions, List of
—appar. used as adverbs
—peculiar phrases having the force of
—importance of, as copulative or as disjunctive, to be carefully
observed
—Conjunctions, Synt. of
—do., in what consists, (MURR. et al. teaching erron.)
—what connect
—declinable words connected by, why in the same case
—power and position of those that connect sentences or clauses
—absurd and contradictory notions concerning the office of, by LENN.,
BULL., et al.
—two or three coming together, how parsed
—Conjunction, followed by a phrase, and not a whole member
—connecting two terms to one
—do. two terms the same in kind or quality
—Conjunctions, to be used with due regard to import and idiom
—punct. of
—ellips. of, shown
—derivation of
—are mostly of Anglo-Sax. origin
—H. TOOKE'S derivations of, given
—poet. usage of or
—or, and nor
—nor

Conjunctive adverbs, what office perform; what classes of words embrace
—often relate equally to two verbs in different clauses
—list of
—whence, whither, &c., sometimes partake of the nature of pronouns
Connected terms, two, limited by a third, what both must be
—should be the same in kind or quality. Connected adjectives, how
should be placed. Connective words, or connectives, kinds of, named
—do., how may be distinguished

Consonants, divisions and subdivisions of —properties of, as sharp, flat, labial, &c.

Construing, whether differs from parsing

Continuance of action, see Compound or Progressive

Contractions, in the orthog. and the pronunciation of words —ocular, in printing poetry, not important

Correlatives, combinations of, ("Father's son,") how to be regarded

Corresponding, or corresponsive conjunctions, in what manner used
—named and exemplified in their several pairs
—nature of the terms standing in the relat. of
—the former of two, how parsed
—CHURCH. canon on the use of
—Or
—or, and nor
—nor, by poet. usage Crotchets, or brackets, how used
—confused and inaccurate teaching of WEBST. et al., concerning

Cum with an ablative, Lat., ("Dux CUM aliquibus," &c.,) the construc. imitated in Eng. —canon on do.

Curves, or marks of parenthesis —have been in use for centuries —the use of, not to be discarded —confused teaching of WEBST. et al., respecting do. —what used to distinguish —clause enclosed by, how to be uttered; pause of do. —Rules for the application of

Customary actions require to be expressed by indic. pres.