Subjunctive mood, defined.
—Subj. mood, why so called; what denotes,
—differing views of grammarians in regard to the numb. and form of its
tenses.
—The true subj. mood rejected by some late grammarians; strictures
on WELLS.
—WELD'S erroneous teaching respecting the subj., noticed,
—CHAND. do., do.
—Chief characteristical diff. between the indic. and the subj. mood.
—Subj. mood described,
—its two tenses do., and their forms shown, in the verb LOVE,
conjugated,
—whether ever put after a rel. pronoun,
—proper limits of,
—how properly employed.
—False subj.
—Subj. mood, not necessarily governed by if, lest, &c.
Such, corresponding to that, with infin. foll., —with rel. as following, in stead of who or which.
Sui generis, what thing is thus designated.
Superlative degree, defined,
—BROWN'S definit. of, and of the other degrees, new; the faulty
charac. of those of MURR., shown,
—the true nature of; how may be used; to what is applicable; the
explanations of, by the copyists of MURR., criticised,
—whether not applicable to two objects,
—when employed, what construc. of the latter term should follow.
—Double superlatives, to be avoided.
—Superl. termination, contractions of.
Supplied, in parsing, what must be. See also Ellipsis.
Suppression, mark of, see Ellipsis.
Syllabic writing, far inferior to the alphabetic, BLAIR.
Syllabication, Rules of,
—the doctrine of, why attended with difficulty,
—object of; WALK. on; strictures on MULK. rules of,
—which of the four purposes of, is preferable in spelling-books and
dictionaries,
—DR. LOWTH on,
—nature of BROWN'S six Rules of; advantage of a system of, founded on
the pronunciat.,
—LATH. and FOWL. fictitious dilemmas in.
—Syllabication, erroneous, samples of, from MURR., WEBST., et al.
SYLLABLES, treated. —Syllable defined. —Syllable, cannot be formed without a vowel, —cannot be broken. —Syllables, numb. of, in a word, —words denominated from their numb. of, —the ear chiefly directs in the division of words into. —(See Syllabication.) —Syllable, its quantity in poetry, —do., on what depends.
Syllepsis, explained,
—literal signif. of the term; extended applicat. of do. by the
grammarians and rhetoricians; BROWN, by his definition, gives it a
more restricted applicat.; disapproves of WEBST. explanat. of the
term,
—what definition or what applicat. of the term is the most approp.,
has become doubtful.