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.