| | PAGE |
| [DEDICATION] | I |
| [INTRODUCTION] | III |
| [PREFATORY REMARKS] | IV |
| [CONTENTS] | IX |
| [ORTHOGRAPHY AND PROSODY] | |
| | [LETTERS] | 1 |
| | [THE ACCENTS] | 2 |
| | [PUNCTUATION] | 3 |
| | [VOWELS] | 5 |
| | [SYLLABLES] | 5 |
| | [CAPITALIZATION] | 5 |
| | [CONTRACTIONS] | 7 |
| [ETYMOLOGY] | |
| | [PARTS OF SPEECH] | 6 |
| | [Articles] | 7 |
| | [Declension] | 8 |
| | [Nouns] | 9 |
| | [Diminutive] | 10 |
| | [Figurative] | 12 |
| | [Verbal] | 13 |
| | [Compound] | 22 |
| | [Derivative] | 23 |
| | [Proper and Common] | 29 |
| | [Positive, Comparative, and Superlative] | 32 |
| | [Cardinal, Ordinal, Partitive, and Distributive] | 35 |
| | [Collective] | 38 |
| | [Gender] | 40 |
| | [Number] | 40 |
| | [Case] | 41 |
| | [Important Observation] | 41 |
| | [Transposition of Accents] | 43 |
| | [Pronouns] | 47 |
| | [Personal] | 47 |
| | [Demonstrative] | 48 |
| | [Possessive] | 50 |
| | [Relative] | 52 |
| | [Contractions] | 56 |
| | [Verbs] | 57 |
| | [Conjugation—Voices] | 58 |
| | [Moods and Tenses] | 58 |
| | [Number and Person] | 61 |
| | [Inflections] | 61 |
| | Table 1.—[Primitive Active] | 61 |
| | Table 2.—[Progressive Active] | 61 |
| | Table 3.—[Primitive Direct Passive][[X]] | 68 |
| | Table 4.—[Progressive Direct Passive] | 70 |
| | Table 5.—[Primitive Indirect Passive] | 73 |
| | Table 6.—[Progressive Indirect Passive] | 75 |
| | Table 7.—[Primitive Instrumental Passive] | 76 |
| | Table 8.—[Progressive Instrumental Passive] | 78 |
| | [Negative Forms] | 80 |
| | [Interrogative Forms] | 82 |
| | [Suppletory Verbs] | 84 |
| | [Pronominal Form] | 84 |
| | [Adverbial Form] | 84 |
| | [Observation] | 87 |
| | [Impersonal Verbs] | 88 |
| | [Defective Verbs] | 88 |
| | [Other classes of Verbs] | 89 |
| | [Active Voice] | 90 |
| | [Direct Passive] | 93 |
| | [Indirect Passive] | 96 |
| | [Instrumental Passive] | 96 |
| | [Depreciative Verbs] | 96 |
| | [Adverbs] | 97 |
| | [Prepositions] | 98 |
| | [Conjunctions] | 98 |
| | [Interjections] | 99 |
| [SYNTAX] | |
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| | [Subjective relation] | 100 |
| | [Predicative relation] | 100 |
| | [Attributive relation] | 100 |
| | [Complementary relation] | 101 |
| | [Adverbial relation] | 102 |
| | [Representative relation] | 102 |
| | [Connective relation] | 103 |
| | [Absolute and independent constructions] | 103 |
| | [Syntax of verbs] | 103 |
| | [Arrangement of words] | 105 |
| | [VIOLATIONS OF GOOD USE] | 105 |
| | [Barbarisms] | 105 |
| | [Foreign words] | 105 |
| | [Foreign words unnecessarily used in Bisayan] | 106 |
| | [Spanish words] | 106 |
| | [Chinese words] | 111 |
| | [English words] | 111 |
| | [Foreign constructions] | 112 |
| | [Foreign words necessarily used in Bisayan] | 112 |
| [APPENDIX] | |
| | [NOTES ON BISAYAN RHETORIC AND POETICS] | 117 |
| | [Figures of Speech] | 117 |
| | [Prose] | 121 |
| | [Letters] | 121 |
| | [Poetic forms] | 123 |
| | [Versification] | 123 |
| | [Collection of some Bisayan songs] | 124 |
| | [Moral Poetry][[XI]] | 124 |
| | [Philosophic Poetry] | 125 |
| | [Love Poetry] | 125 |
| | [Sundry] | 126 |
| | [NOTE ON FILIPINO DIALECTOLOGY] | 128 |
| | [Words exactly the same in Bisayan and in Tagalog] | 128 |
| | [Words with some dialectal differences] | 130 |
| | [Differences in the vowels i, o] | 130 |
| | [Differences k, h, l, r, d, t] | 131 |
| | [Differences in the accent, and in the separation of the syllables] | 132 |
| | [Transformation from a to o and viceversa] | 132 |
| | [ERRATA] | 133 |