Notwithstanding, import and construc. of; misunderstood by DR. WEBST.
—formation and signif. of
NOUNS, Etymol. of
—Noun, defined
—Nouns, Classes of, named and defined
—Modifications of, named
—Persons of, named and defined; (see Persons)
—Numbers of, do.; (see Plural Number)
—Genders of, do.; (see Genders)
—Cases of, do.; (see Cases)
—Declension of
—Nouns, number of, in Eng.
—the sense of, how made indefinitely partitive
—examples of words commonly belonging to other classes, used as
—collective, abstract, and verbal or participial, included among
common nouns; (see Collective Noun, and Particip. Noun)
—proper, (see Proper Names)
—Nouns, Synt. of
—Noun, why may not be put in the relation of two cases at once
—taken figuratively sing. for literally plur.
—required to be repeated, or inserted, in stead of a pronoun
—ellips. of, shown
—Nouns of time, measure, distance, &c., (see Time)
—Nouns, derivation of, from nouns, adjectives, verbs, or participles
—poet. peculiarities of
Numbers, the distinction of, to what belongs, and how applied. (See
Plural Number.) Numbers, cardinal, ordinal, &c., (see Cardinal
Numbers, &c.)
—Numbers, abstract, expressions of multiplication in, ("Twice one
IS two,"
—"Twice two ARE four," &c.,) seven different opinions of
grammarians respecting, examined by BROWN; who determines the prop.
forms of expression
—Numbers, expressed by letters, how to be considered; whether to be
marked by the period
—combined arithmetical, one adjective relating to an other
Numerals, numeral adjectives, see Adjectives, Numeral. Numerical figures used for references
O.
O, lett., as A, E, I, and U, self-naming
—its plural
—formation of the plur. of nouns in
—sounds properly its own
—where sounded as short u
—do. as obscure e
—diphthongs beginning with
—triphth. do. O, interj., with cap. lett.
—what emotion indicates
—differs from oh
—as denoting earnestness, before nouns or pronouns put absol. by
direct address; is no positive index of the vocative
—O, &c., MURR., erron. doctrine concerning, to what teaching it has
given rise
—O, &c., with a case following, Lat. construc. of, examined
—O, not unfreq. confounded with oh, even by grammarians.
Obelisk, or dagger, as mark of reference.
Objective case, defined
—Obj. case, how distinguished from the nom. in nouns
—before the infin. mood, how taken in Eng.
—as governed by active-trans. verb or part.
—"Active verbs govern the obj. case," MURR., defect of this brief
assertion; its uselessness as a RULE for "the syntax of verbs."
—Obj. case, of how many constructions susceptible
—whether infinitives, participles, &c., can be in
—two nouns in, after a verb, how parsed,
—Whether any verb in Eng. governs two objectives not coupled
—Obj. case as governed by passive verbs, erron. allowed by some
—what verbs not to be employed without
—Obj. case as governed by prep.
—"Prepositions gov. the obj. case," why the brief assertion is
exceptionable, as the sole RULE, in parsing prep.
Obsolete or antiquated words, use of, as opposed to purity, PREC. against
—Things obsolete in Eng., DR. LATHAM'S attempts to revive.
Ocean, figurative representation of, as uttering his voice in tones of varied quantity.