T.

T, name and plur. numb. of,
—substitution of, for ed, how far allowable,
—sounds of,
—is seldom silent; in what words not sounded. Th, ([Greek: Th],
[Greek: alt-th], or [Greek: alt2-th], Gr.,) what represents; how was
represented in Anglo-Sax., and to what sounds applied; the two sounds
of. To a Tee, the colloq. phrase, explained.

Tautology of expression or of sentiment, a fault opposed to precision.

Teacher, what should be his aim with respect to gram.

Technical terms, unnec. use of, as opposed to propriety. Technically, words and signs taken, how to be construed.

Tenses, term defined.
—Tenses, the difierent, named and defined,
—whether the names of, are approp., or whether they should be changed,
—whether all express time with equal precision,
—who reckon only three, and who two; who still differently and
variously name their tenses,
—Tenses, past and present, occurring together. See Present Tense,
Imperf. Tense, &c.

Terminating a sentence with a prep. or other small particle

Terminations, of words, separated in syllabicat. —of verbs, numb. of different, in each tense —of the Eng. verb; DR. A. MURR. account of —tendency of the lang. to lay aside the least agreeable —usage of famil. discourse in respect to those of second pers. sing. —verbal or particip., how are found written in old books —the only reg. ones added to Eng. verbs; utterance of ed and edst —ed, participial, and n, verbal, WALK. on the contrac. of —Termination t, for ed, forced and irreg.

Terms of relation, see Relation. Tetrameter line, iambic, examples
of
—a favorite with many Eng. writers; BUTL. Hudib., GAY'S Fab., and most
of SCOTT'S poems, writt. in couplets of this meas.
—admits the doub. rhyme adapted to familiar and burlesque style
—trochaic, examples of
—character of do.
—EVERETT'S fanciful notions about do.
—anapestic, examples of
—L. HUNT'S "Feast of the Poets," an extended examp. of do.
—dactylic, examples of

Than, as, with ellips. in latter term of comparison —character and import of —declinable words connected by, put in same case —Than WHOM, as Gr. genitive governed by comparat., MILT. —what grammarians have inferred from the phrase —MURR. expedient to dispose of do. —CHURCH. makes the rel. in do. "the obj. case absol.," —BROWN determines with respect to the construc. —Than, as demanded after else, other, &c., and Eng. comparatives —derivation of, from Goth. or Anglo-Sax.

That, its class determined
—its various uses
—as REL. PRONOUN, to what applied
—as used in anomalous construc.,
—its peculiarity of construc. as a relative
—its especial use as the restrictive relative
—the frequent employment of, by Addison, wrongly criticised by BLAIR
—as a relative, in what cases more appropriate than who or which
—That, ellipt., repeating the import of the preceding words, ("And
THAT,"
—[Greek: kai tauta],)
—That, in the phrases in that, &c., how to be reckoned
—That, as introducing a dependent clause, how to be ranked
—as introducing a sent. made the subj. or obj. of a finite verb
—its power at the head of a sent. or clause
—its derivation

The, before the species, what may denote —how commonly limits the sense —applied to nouns of either numb. —before what adjectives, required —distinctive use of ("The Psalmist") —as relating to comparatives and superlatives —used for poss. pron. —repetition of, how avoided —derivation of, from Sax. —pronunc. of e in. See also Definite Article.

Them, in vulg. use as an adj., for those

Thence, &c., with from prefixed, whether allowable

There, introductory and idiomatic, notions of grammarians concerning; its posit. and use; is a regular adv. of place, and not "without signification," —derivation of, from Anglo-Sax. —poet. omission of

They, put indefinitely for men or people

This and that, as explained by CHURCH. —placed before conjoint singulars, ("THIS POWER AND WILL do," &c.,) —in contrasted terms

Three stars, or asterism, use of

Time, the order and fitness of, to be observed in constructions
expressing it
—nouns of, with adv. WHEN, as a special relative, following Time,
measure, or weight, part made possessive of the whole, ("An
HOUR'S time")
—noun of, not poss., immediately before an other, ("A POUND
WEIGHT,") Time, place, &c., the obj. case in expressions of, taken
after the fashion of an adv. Time, measure, distance, or value,
nouns of, their peculiarity of construc.; the parsing of Time, obj.
noun of, qualifying a subsequent adj., ("A child OF ten years
OLD,") Four times, five times, &c., how to be reckoned. TIMES,
before an other noun, by way of MULTIPLICATION, the nature and
construc. of, discussed; decision. Times, in what construc. may be
called the objective of repetition, or of time repeated. Time
in pronunciation, or quantity

Titles, of books, are printed in capitals
—of office, &c., begin with do.
—merely mentioned as such, are without art.
—Name and TITLE, (see Proper Names.) Side-titles, use of dash
in application to

Tmesis, explained

To, as governing infin. mood
—do., variously explained by grammarians
—is a sign of inf., but not a part of it
—what BROWN claims for his RULE respecting the infin. as gov. by the
prep. TO, &c.; he shows that the doctrine originated not with
himself
—TO and the verb, what FISHER (anno 1800) taught respecting; what,
LOWTH, and what, absurdly, MURR., his copyist
—To, as governing infin., traced from the Sax. to the Eng. of
WICKL.,
—To, before infin., evasive teachings of the later grammarians
concerning its class and construc.
—do., how considered by most Eng. grammarians
—do., how proved to be a prep.
—do., preceded by for, anc.
—after what verbs, omitted,
—whether to be repeated before infinitives in the same construe.
—sometimes required, and sometimes excluded, after than or as
—whether it may be separated from its verb by an adv.; is placed
more elegantly AFTER an adv., ("PROPERLY TO respect,")
—in what cases has no prop, antec. term of relat.
—To suppressed and be inserted after MAKE, whether correctly
—To, prep, or adv., from Anglo-Sax.
—To, as prefix to noun, (to-day, to-night, to-morrow,).

Tones of the voice, what; why deserving of j particular attention —what denominated by SHERID.; what should be their character —BLAIR'S remark on; HIL. do. —Tones of the passions, WALK, observation on.

Topics, different, to be treated in separate paragraphs, PREC. of Unity.

Transposition, of the terms of relat., when a preposition begins or ends a sentence or clause —rhetorical, of words, or hyperbaton.

Tribrach, defined.

Trimeter line, iambic, the measure seldom used alone; examples of,
—and do., with diversifications
—trochaic, examples of
—anapestic, examples of
—alternated with the tetram., examp., "The Rose," of COWP.; the same
scanned
—dactylic, examples of. Triphthong, defined
—proper, do., the only, in Eng.
—improp., do.; and the improp. triphthongs named.

Trochaic verse, treated
—Troch. verse, the stress in
—nature of the single-rhymed; error of MURR. et al. concerning the
last syll. in
—how may be changed to coincide with other measures; how is affected
by retrenchment
—confounded with iambic by several gramm. and prosodists
—Strictures on CHURCH., who doubts the existence of the troch. ord.
of verse
—Troch. verse shown in its eight measures
—Trochaics, Eng., the TETRAMETER the most common meas. of
—DR. CAMPB. on
—"Trochaic of One foot," account of.

Trochee, or choree, defined.

Tropes, what figures of rhetoric are so called; signif. of the term.

Trow, its signif., and where occurs; in what person and tenses read.

Truisms and senseless remarks, how to be dealt with in gram.

Tutoyant, to what extent prevalent among the French. See Youyouing, &c.

Type or character, two forms of the letters in every kind of.