Persons, term defined,
—Persons, named and defined,
—the distinction of, on what founded,
—Persons, numbers, &c., character of BROWN'S definitions of,
—Persons, in gram., nature of; absurd teachings of some
grammar-makers concerning,
—distinctions of, in written lang.,
—Person and number of a verb, what,
—Persons, second and third, of a verb, distinctive formations of,
—do., in Lat., shown,
—Person, nouns of the second, in Eng., in how many ways can be
employed,
—the third, put with the pron. I, by vulgarism, ("THINKS I to
myself,")
—the first, place of,
—Persons, whether the imperat. mood may have three,
—connected antecedents of different, agreem. of pron. with,
—connected nominatives of different, agreem. of verb with,
Perspicuity, as a quality of style, in what consists, —is essential in composition; BLAIR quoted, —the excellence of, —Precepts aiming at offences against,
Perversions of Eng. grammar, the design, in part, of BROWN'S code of synt, is to make intelligent judges of, —Perversions, literary, Crit. N. concerning,
Phonetics, phonography, phonotopy, BROWN'S estimate of; DR. JOH. cited,
—account of,
—TRENCH'S views of,
—Phonographic system of stenography, its practical value;
phonotopy, to what may be advantageously applied,
Phrase, defined,
—Phrase made the subject of a verb, how to be taken,
—Phrases, distinct, conjunctively connected, agreem. of verb with,
—distinct, disjunctively connected, do.,
—unconnected, do.,
—BAD phrases, examples of, from authors,
—do., corrected,
—Phrases or clauses, ellips. of, shown,
—Adverbial phrase, (so termed by some,) see Adverb.
Place or position of the different parts of speech, see Article, Noun, Adjective, &c.
Pleonasm, defined,
—Pleonasm, when allowable with respect to a pron.,
—in what instances impressive and elegant; when, the vice of ill
writing,
—occurs sundry times in the Bible,
Pluperfect tense, defined,
—Pluperf. tense, what implies when used conditionally; what, in the
negative form of supposition,
—how formed in the indic. mood; do. in the potential,
—indic. form of, put by enall. for pluperf. of the pot.,
—PLUPERFECT, signif. of the term; several innovators (as BULL., BUTL.,
et al.) have been fain to discard it,
Plural number, of nouns, how formed,
—of most nouns in Eng., is simple and regular,
—of nouns ending in a vowel preceded by a vowel,
—of do. in y preceded by a consonant,
—of do. in o preceded by a consonant,
—construc. of, when several persons of the same name are spoken of
("The Stuarts,")
—of prop. names, its formation,
—of nouns in i, o, u, or y, preceded by a consonant,
—when name and title are to be used together, ("The Miss
Bells,")
—of nouns in f,
—of nouns not formed in s or es,
—of compounds,
—of certain compound terms, ("Ave-Maries," &c.,)
—wanting to some nouns,
—of nouns of multitude,
—Plural, nouns made so by nature or art,
—of foreign nouns, 253,
—improperly formed by adding apostrophic s,
—of mere characters, how denoted,
Plurality, the idea of; see Unity, &c.