and attention. The new edition, he hopes will be found much improved. The additions, which are very considerable, are, chiefly, such as are calculated to expand the learner's views of the subject; to obviate objections; and to render the study of grammar both easy and interesting. This edition contains also a new and enlarged system of parsing; copious lists of nouns arranged according to their gender and number; and many notes and observations, which serve to extend, or to explain, particular rules and positions.* The writer is sensible that, after all his endeavours to elucidate the principles of the work, there are few of the divisions, arrangements, definitions, or rules, against which critical ingenuity cannot devise plausible objections. The subject is attended with so much intricacy, and admits of views so various, that it was not possible to render every part of it unexceptionable; or to accomodate the work in all respects, to the opinions and prepossessions of every grammarian and teacher. If the author has adopted that system which, on the whole, is best suited to the nature of the subject, and conformable to the sentiments of the most judicious grammarians; if his reasonings and illustrations, respecting particular points, are founded on just principles, and the peculiarities of the English language; he has, perhaps, done all that could reasonably be expected in a work of this nature; and he may warrantably indulge a hope, that the book will be still more extensively approved and circulated. *The author conceives that the occasional strictures, dispersed through the book, and intended to illustrate and support a number of important grammatical points, will not, to young persons of ingenuity, appear to be dry and useless discussions. He is persuaded, that, by such persons, they will be read with attention. And he presumes that these strictures will gratify their curiosity, stimulate application, and give solidity and permanence to their grammatical knowledge. HOLDGATE, NEAR YORK, 1804. PART I.- ORTHOGRAPHY. CHAP. 1. Of letters. SECT. 1. Of the nature of the letters, and CHAP. 2. СНАР. 3. Páge : : 13 on the : : 21 of a perfect alphabet. : 2. General observations sounds of the letters. 3. The nature of articulation ex- ranging them. 35 : Of words in general, and the rules for spelling them. :: CHAP. 3. Of substantives. SECT. 1. Of substantives in general. SECT. 1. Of the nature of adjectives, and the degrees of comparison. CHAP. 6. Of verbs. SECT. 1. Of the nature of verbs in general. Page 2. Of number and person. 70 : 73 3. Of moods and participles. 4. 78 5. 80 6. Remarks on the potential mood. verbs to have and to be. : : 11. 86 : 95 99 Of several nouns joined by copulatives. Of nouns of multitude. : : : : : sessive case. Page : 147 148 153 Of the syntax of the pronoun. Of pronouns agreeing with their antecedents. : : : : : 156 Of the syntax of the adjective. Of the syntax of the verb. Of the verb's agreement with the nominative case. : : : : : : : : : : : Of verb's active requiring the objective case. 139 175 tive mood. : :: : : : : Of conjunctions connecting the same moods, tenses, and cases. : Of conjunctions requiring the subjunctive Of the syntax of interjections. Of comparisons by the conjunction than or as. Directions for parsing. PART IV.- : : : : : : 207 : : : : 211 -PROSODY. : : 215 CHAP. 1. Of pronunciation. : : 224 Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with re- Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect СНАР. 1. CHAP. 2. Of the clearness of a sentence. CHAP 4. Of figures of speech. ADDRESS TO YOUNG STUDENTS. : : 287 : : : : : |