The Grammar of English Grammars

by Goold Brown

Prefixes, their management in syllabication, R.:
—Explanation of
—import and character of the particles used as, in Eng.; the roots
to which prefixed, not always proper Eng. words
—Prefixes, ENG. or ANGLO-SAX.,
—Prefixes, poet, usage with respect to,

Preperfect participle, defined
—Preperf. part., its form
—its nature and name,

PREPOSITIONS, Etymol. of
—Preposition defined
—importance of a right use, and a right explan. of
—HARR. explanation of, as cited by LOWTH, stricture on HARR.
—its simplicity among the parts of speech; how should be explained in
parsing,
—no sufficient RULE for the synt. of, in most of the Eng. grammars,
Prepositions and their objects, as preceding the words on which
they depend, ("Of man's first disobedience, &c., Sing" MILC.,)
—Prepositions, what it is, to find the terms of relations of;
disput. text cited in illustration
—the special adaptation of; example of misuse by MURR., remarked on
—HARR., on the purpose for which almost all prepositions were orig.
formed, and on the nature of their relations; his views controverted
by BROWN,
—Prepositions and their governed objects, the true determination of;
examples of joint objects, and of joint antecedents, wrong views of
MURR. and his followers concerning this matter.
—Prepositions, two connected, for what different purposes used
—two coming together, ("FROM AMONG the just,")
—Prepositions complex, what their character, and how may be
resolved; are occasionally compounded by the hyphen
—Prepositions, how might be divided into classes; the inutility in
parsing of the division into "separable and inseparable;"

HALL'S absurd idea of a divis., noticed
—whether "two in immediate succession require a noun to be understood
between them," (NUTT.)
—words commonly reckoned, (in, on, of, &c.,) used after infinitives
or participles, in adverbial construc., ("Houses to eat and drink
IN")
—Prepositions, List of
—grammarians differ considerably in their tables of; do. concerning
the characteristics of; what BROWN supposes, in oppos. to the
assertion that "Every prep. requires an obj. case after it"
—LENN. and BULL. on "prepositions becoming adverbs," criticised
—MURR. on "prepositions appearing to be adverbs," criticised
—Preposition, whether it can be justly said to take a sent. for its
object
—Prepositions, words in the list of, sometimes used as other parts
of speech
—extension of the list of
—examples of the less usual, a, and others beginning with a
—do. of unusual ones beginning with b, c, or d
—unusual, quotations illustrating further the list of
—Preposition, RULE of synt. for the word governed by
—Prepositions, in Eng., govern no other case than the obj.; most,
may take the imperf. part. for their obj.
—The brief assertion, that "Prepositions govern the obj. case,"
wherein is exceptionable as the sole rule for both terms
—Prepositions, ellipt. construc. of, with adjectives, (in vain, in
secret, &c.)
—sometimes appar. govern adverbs
—Preposition, appar. governing a perf. part., ("To give it up FOR
LOST")
—Prepositions, Synt. of
—do., in what consists
—what RELATIONS, show; (see To and For)
—the parsing of; why tolerable writers are liable to err most in their
use of
—Preposition, the true terms of the relat. of, how may be discovered
—when beginning or ending a sent. or clause, what the construc.
—the terms of relation of, what may be; both usually expressed
—position of, with respect to the governed word
—Prepositions, several, dependent on one anteced. term, ("A
declaration FOR virtue and AGAINST vice," BUTL.)
—two coming together between the same terms of relat.; do. in the same
construc.; erron. remark of PRIESTL., MURR., et al., concerning the
latter
—Preposition, the separating of, from its noun, false doctrine of
LOWTH, MURR., et al., concerning
—Prepositions, prop, choice of
—do., with respect to the allowable uses of
—as adapted in meaning to two objects, or to more
—Preposition, ellips. or omiss. of, where ineleg.
—insertion of, when do.
—Prep. and its object, position of, in respect to other words
—do., punc. of
—Prep., ellips. of, shown
—Prepositions, derivation of
—poet. usage with respect to

Present tense, defined
—Pres. tense, described
—of the indic., used to express general truths
—deceased authors spoken of in, and why
—for the past, by Grecism; in animated narrative, for do., by enall.
—of the indic. and the subj., when preceded by as soon as, &c., to
what time, refers
—of the infin., what time is expressed by; expedients used to express
fut. time by
—of the INFINITIVE, the ROOT, or RADICAL VERB
—of the subj., its use, and how considered by some
—Pres. tense, sometimes improp. with the conjunc. that, ("Others
said, THAT it is Elias")

Preter, preterimperfect, &c., disused terms for past, imperfect, &c.
—Preter, prefix, its meaning

Preterit, defined
—Preterit, described
—its form and variations
—present tendency to a reg. orthog. of, to be encouraged
—groundless rule of some, for forming second pers. of, when the pres.
and the pret. are alike
—not to be used in forming the comp. tenses of a verb

Preventing, verbs of, with part., in stead of infin.
—what construc. is proper for

Primitive word, defined
—Primitive words regarded as such in Eng., may generally be traced
to ulterior sources

Principal parts, of a verb, (see Chief Terms)
—of a sent., how many, and what