Priscian, ancient grammarian, delivers the names of most of the Lat. letters
Progressive form of a verb, see Compound &c.
Pronominal adjectives, see Adjectives, Pronominal
PRONOUNS, Etymol. of
—Pronoun, definition of
—Pronouns in Eng., number of, and their variations
—nature of the representation by; are put substantively, relatively,
or adjectively; difference in these three modes of substitution
—Classes of, named, and defined; (see Personal Pronoun, Relative
Pron., and Interrogative Pron.)
—Pronouns, compound, constructional peculiarities of
—Pronouns, faultiness and discordance of most Eng. grammars, with
respect to the classification and treatment of; specification of
different modes of distribution by diff. authors
—Modifications of, named; these properties how distinguished in the
personal pronouns; do. how ascertained in the relat. and interrog.
pronouns
—Declension of; simp. personals declined; comp. personals do.; comp.
relatives do.
—appar. used for adverbs
—Pronouns, Synt. of
—Pronoun, agreem. of, with its anteced.
—do., with anteced. indefinite
—plur., put by enall. for the sing., agreem. of
—sometimes disagreeing with the anteced. in one sense, because taking
it in an other
—what the main point with respect to; what application of the rule of
agreem., in parsing
—Pronouns, agreem. of, with their antecedents, as affected by the
figures of rhetoric
—place of
—Pronoun, as representing a phrase or sentence
—under what circumstances can agree with either of two antecedents
—the parsing of, commonly requiring the application of two rules
—with suppressed anteced.
—needless introduction of, ("PALLAS, HER glass," BACON)
—with change of numb. in the second pers., or promisc. use of ye and
you
—must present the same idea as the anteced., and never confound the
name with the thing signified
—employment of the same, with respect to connected relative clauses
—in what instances the noun must be repeated, or inserted in stead
of
—should never be used to represent an adj., ("Be ATTENTIVE;
without WHICH," &c.)
—change of anteced. to accord with
—agreem. with collective nouns
—do. with joint antecedents
—do. with connected antecedents in apposition
—do. with connected antecedents emphat. distinguished
—do. with connected antecedents preceded by each, every, or no
—do. with connected antecedents of different persons
—agreeing with implied nominatives
—agreem. with disjunct antecedents
—what agreem. with disjunct. antecedents of different persons,
numbers, and genders
—do. with antecedents taken affirmatively and negatively
—do. with two antecedents connected by as well as, &c.
—ellips. of, shown
—punct. of, without pause
—Pronouns, derivation of, from Sax.
—poet. peculiarities of
Pronunciation, importance of an early habit of distinct
—how best taught to children
—Pronunc., as distinguished from elocution, what; how differs from
articulation
—Pronunc. of the Eng. lang., what knowledge requires; its
difficulties; whether we have any system of, worthy to be accounted a
STANDARD
Proof-texts, not to be perverted in the quotation, Crit. N.
—not quoted, but invented, by some, in their false illustrations
of gram.
Proper names begin with capitals —Comm. and proper name associated, how written —Prop. names, derivatives from, do. —(Names of Deity, see Deity.) —Prop. names, application of rule concerning; distinc. between do. and common appellatives —of places, comparative difficulty of writing them —modern compound, sparing use of hyphen in —Prop. names, what their relative importance in lang. —structure and signif. of; how should be written —of plur. form, preceded by def. art. —Prop. name, with def. art., acquires the import of a comm. —Proper, from a comm. noun personified —Prop. names of individuals, strictly used as such, have no plur.; prop. name, how made plur., and how then considered —when they form a plur., how form it —of persons, generally designate their sex —Prop. name, in appos. with an appellative —represented by which, ("Herod —WHICH is," &c.) —Prop. name and title, when taken together in a plur. sense, in what form to be written
Property, the relation of, how may be otherwise expressed than by the poss. case
Prophecy, the past tenses substituted for the fut., in the lang. of
Propositions, permanent, in what tense should be expressed