N.
N, its name and plur. numb., —of the class liquids, —its sounds, —in what position silent.
Name and title, see Proper Names.
Naming the letters of the alphab., importance of.
Narration, see Discourse.
Nasals, what consonants so called.
Near and nigh, see Like.
Need, as an uninflected third pers. sing. of the verb,
—has perh. become an auxiliary of the pot. mood,
—to what tenses must be understood to belong, if to be recognized as
an auxil. of the pot. mood,
—that good writers sometimes inflect the verb, and sometimes do not,
and that they sometimes use to after it, and sometimes do not, how
may be accounted for
—three authorized forms of expression, with respect to the verb.
Needs, as an adv., its composition
Needless, mixing of characters in printing, bad effect of
—capitals; effect of
—articles, to be omitted
—ellipses, the supposition of, a common error among grammarians
—use of participles for nouns, or nouns for participles
—words, ineleg.
—possessive or art. before a part., how corrected
—periods, or other points, after certain numeral expressions
—abbreviations, offend against taste
—dashes inserted, how to be treated
Negation, expressed in the early Eng. by multiplied negatives; such manner of expression now obsolete and improper —Effect on a negation, of two negatives in the same clause
Negatives, the comm. rule of the grammars, that "two negatives, in Eng., destroy each other, or &c.," whether a correct one
Neither, see Either
Neuter verb, defined
—Neuter verbs, the active-trans. verbs are so called in most
grammars and dictionaries; the absurdity of this
—extent of this class of verbs; their existence in any lang. denied by
some grammarians
—Neut. verb BE, conjugated
—Neuter verbs, made from active-transitives, (am come, is gone,
&c.;) these called by some, "neuter passives"
—of passive form, (am grown, are flown, &c.,) as errors of
conjugat., or of synt.
—do., how may be distinguished from pass. verbs
—do., DR. PRIESTL. mistaken notions concerning their nature and
propriety
—Neut. verbs, and their participles, take the same case after as
before them
—Neuter verb between two nominatives, its agreem.
Nevertheless, its composition and class
No or none, pronom. adj. No, as negative adj., "remarkable ambiguity
in the use of," noticed by PRIESTL., ("No laws are better than the
English;") how the ambiguity may be avoided
—as a simple negation, its construc.
—as an adv. of deg., relating only to comparatives, ("NO more,"
—"NO better")
—set before a noun, is an adj., corresponding to Lat. nullus
—In the phrases, no longer, no more, no where, DR. JOH. appar.
suggests wrongly the class; its true class according to its several
relations
—No, or an other independent negative, repeated, its effect
—No, adv., not to be used with reference to a verb or part.
—derivation of, from Anglo-Sax.
Nominative case, defined
—Nom. case, how distinguished from the objective in nouns
—as subj. of a finite verb
—different ways of using
—Nominative and verb, usual position of, and when varied
—Nom. case and object., at the same time, noun placed in the
relation of
—Nom. following a verb or part, with what must accord in signif. See
also Subject, &c.
Nominative sentences, examples of what MURR. erron. so terms; the prop. construc. shown
Nor, see Or.
Not, its place in negative questions
—how spoken in grave discourse, and how ordinarily
—vulg. contractions of, with certain verbs
—used with other negatives
—do. with nor (in stead of or) following, whether correctly, or
not
—derivation of, from Anglo-Sax. Not but, how resolved. Not only,
not merely, to what are correspondents
Notwithstanding, import and construc. of; misunderstood by DR. WEBST.
—formation and signif. of
NOUNS, Etymol. of
—Noun, defined
—Nouns, Classes of, named and defined
—Modifications of, named
—Persons of, named and defined; (see Persons)
—Numbers of, do.; (see Plural Number)
—Genders of, do.; (see Genders)
—Cases of, do.; (see Cases)
—Declension of
—Nouns, number of, in Eng.
—the sense of, how made indefinitely partitive
—examples of words commonly belonging to other classes, used as
—collective, abstract, and verbal or participial, included among
common nouns; (see Collective Noun, and Particip. Noun)
—proper, (see Proper Names)
—Nouns, Synt. of
—Noun, why may not be put in the relation of two cases at once
—taken figuratively sing. for literally plur.
—required to be repeated, or inserted, in stead of a pronoun
—ellips. of, shown
—Nouns of time, measure, distance, &c., (see Time)
—Nouns, derivation of, from nouns, adjectives, verbs, or participles
—poet. peculiarities of
Numbers, the distinction of, to what belongs, and how applied. (See
Plural Number.) Numbers, cardinal, ordinal, &c., (see Cardinal
Numbers, &c.)
—Numbers, abstract, expressions of multiplication in, ("Twice one
IS two,"
—"Twice two ARE four," &c.,) seven different opinions of
grammarians respecting, examined by BROWN; who determines the prop.
forms of expression
—Numbers, expressed by letters, how to be considered; whether to be
marked by the period
—combined arithmetical, one adjective relating to an other
Numerals, numeral adjectives, see Adjectives, Numeral. Numerical figures used for references