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