Grammar, Exercises, and Key.
AS the Grammar contains a considerable number of
positions and minor rules, which are not readily discover-
able by the general arrangement of the work; and as the
last editions of the Exercises and Key, comprise many cri
tical and explanatory notes, which could not conveniently
be inserted in the Grammar; the author conceived that an
Alphabetical Index to the Grammar, Exercises, and Key,
would not be unacceptable to the reader. With this view,
and in conformity with the wishes of persons, for whose
judgment he entertains great respect, he has produced the
following Index to the three books.
In forming this work, it was not his sole design to assist
the student, in readily discovering any particular subjects
of grammar. He wished also to express the most im-
portant principles of the art, in short, comprehensive, and
striking sentences, calculated to stimulate the learner's
curiosity, and to impress the subjects more deeply in his
memory. The author was desirous that the work should
at once form an Index to particulars, and an Epitome of
the chief rules and principles of the language.
The reader who consults this Index, will observe that
the references to the pages always point to the Grammar,
unless the Exercises, or the Key, are mentioned. The
Nineteenth edition of the Grammar, the Twelfth of the
Exercises, and the Tenth of the Key, are the editions
referred to: and the pages of reference to each of the
books, will be the same, in every subsequent edition.
In all cases, where explanatory notes, or critical dis-
cussions, have been inserted in the Exercises or the Key,
the Index refers to the pages which contain them: and, in
a few special cases, these books are referred to, as illus-
trating and exemplifying the rules. But general references
of this kind could not be made, without giving the Index
too great an extent. The student may, however, in every
rule that is mentioned, readily apply to the correspondent
Exercise and Key; in which he will always find a variety
of exemplification, and, in many instances, extended views
of the subject.
ABSOLUTE. Case Absolute-Its nature explained,
It belongs to no verb, expressed or implied,
How to be parsed,
How to be pointed,
Accent dignifies syllables; emphasis, words,
Manner of pronouncing the unaccented vowels, denotes the
By what marks signified,
ACCUSATIVE case. The same as the objective,
ADDRESS to the young students, on the use and abuse of their
ADJECTIVE. The definition of it,
It is varied only by degrees of Comparison,
Whether the positive is a degree of comparison,
Various modes of forming the degrees of comparison,
How adjectives become nouns, and nouns adjectives, 58, 166
Though the degrees of comparison are indefinite in number,
yet language requires but few of them,
The superlative of Eminence, and the superlative of Compa-
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