R.

R, name and plur. numb. —of the class liquids —sound of; do., how can be varied in utterance —what faults to be avoided in do. —DR. JOH. account of; WALK. do.

Radicals, separable and inseparable, what are so called in Eng. derivation

Rath, adv., used only in the compar. deg. —Rather, with the exclusive term of comparis. introduced by than —derivation of

Reading, to read, in gram., what the signif. of
—READ, verb, CONJUGATED affirmatively in Comp. Form

Reciprocal terms, reciprocals, what pronom. adjectives may be so termed
—Reciprocals, EACH OTHER, ONE AN OTHER, their nature and import
—misapplicat. of, frequent in books; WEBST. errs in the signif. and
applicat. of other. See also Other

Reciprocal or reflected verbs, constructions in imitation of the French

Recurrence of a word in different senses, a fault opposed to propriety

Redundant verb, defined
—Redund. verbs, why made a separate class
—treated
—List of

Reference, marks of, ASTERISK, OBELISK, &c., shown; in what order are
introduced
—what other signs of, may be used. Reference, doubtful, Crit. N.
concerning

Reformers of the Eng. alphabet and orthog., some account of

Rejoice, resolve, incline, &c., import of, in the pass. form

Relations of things, their infinitude and diversity; the nature of
RELATION
—Relation of words, what
—is diff. from agreem., but may coincide with it
—Relation according to the sense, an important principle in Eng.
synt.; what rules of relation commonly found in the grammars
—Simple relation, what parts of speech have no other syntact.
property than; what simp. relations there are in Eng.
—Relation, with respect to a prep., anteced. term, what may be;
subseq., do.
—Relation, do., terms of, to be named in parsing a prep.; how the
terms may be ascertained by a learner
—terms of, to a prep., may be transposed; are very various; both
usually expressed

Relative pronouns, defined
—Relative pronouns, and their compounds, named; declined
—chief constructional peculiarities of
—two faulty special rules given by the grammarians, for construc. of,
noticed
—construc. of, with respect to CASE
—ellips. of, in famil. lang., ("The man I trust;") do., poet.
—Relative and prep. governing it, when should not be omitted
—Relative pron., place of
—clauses, connected, employment of, with same pron. in each
—Rel. pronouns, exclude conjunctions
—derivat. of, from Sax.
—poet, peculiarities with respect to. See also Who, Which, &c.

Repetition, of a noun or pronoun, what construc. it produces —of words, emphatic, punct. —of words, through paucity of lang.; against propriety —of do., as demanded by precision —Repetitions, see Pleonasm

Restrictive and resumptive senses of the rel. pronouns, distinc.
between, expl.
—Restrictive, relation, most approp. expressed by the pron. THAT
—admits not a comma before the relative
—adj., admits not a comma before it
—part., do.

Rhetoric, figure of, defined
—Figures of rhetoric, see Figures

Rhetorical pauses, see Pauses

Rhode Island, the name how acquired; peculiarity of its application

Rhyme, defined —Rhyming syllables, their nature and quality

Rhythm, of verse, defined
—Fancifully explained by E. A. POE, (who without intelligence derives
the term from [Greek: hurithmos])
—sense and signif. of the word

Roman letters, some account of

Rules, of RELATION, what, commonly found in grammars
—of SYNT., those common in grammars ill adapted to their purpose;
examples of such
—of do., exposition of the faulty charac. of those in Eng. grammars
—Rules of grammar, advantage of, in the written language

Rush, Dr. J., his new doctrine of the vowels and consonants, in oppos. to
the old, how estimated by BROWN
—his doctrine of a duplicity of the vocal elements, perstringed
—his strange division of the vowels "into two parts," and conversion
of most of them into diphthongs; his enumeration and specification of
the alphabetic elements