The evil that men do lives after them.'
Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know.'
188. We live in deeds, not years.'
189. The old order changeth, yielding place to new.'
190. A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.'
191. The world knows nothing of its greatest men.'
192. Duty, 'stern Daughter of the Voice of God.'
193. He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.'
194. A man's reach should exceed his grasp,
195. He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free, And all are slaves beside.'
'Peace hath her victories Not less renowned than war.'
197. Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.' 198. Evil is wrought by want of thought As well as want of heart.'
199. He that is truly wise and great Lives both too early and too late.'
'The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight.'
Abstract nouns, 76
Accent, 51
Accidence, definition of, 66 Address, nominative of, 97, 231 Adjectives, definition of, 103; compared with verbs, 104; classified, 104; used as nouns, 106; inflexion of, 112; not admitting comparison, 113; comparison of, 114; suffixes forming, 202; followed by objective, 238, 245; used attribu- tively and predicatively, 104, 241; factitive use of, 241; agreement of, 241; order of, 246 Adjective clauses, 194
Adjunct, attributive, 212; adverbial, 215 Adverbs, definition of, 179; classification
of, 180; formation of, 181; used as adjectives, 183; as nouns, 190; show- ing case-endings, 182; simple and con- junctive, 180; yes and no, 181; com- parison of, 182, 280; from he, who, the, 182; compound, 182; modify certain parts of speech, 179; syntax of, 269; distinguished from prepositions, 189; distinguished from conjunctions, 270; meaning affected by position, 271 Adverbial adjuncts, 215; clauses, 195; object, 238
After, different parts of speech, 64 Agency, suffixes marking, 202 Alms, 89
Alphabet, the English, 55; deficient, re- dundant, inconsistent, 55; origin of, 59; requirements of a perfect, 55; phonetic, 56
Alternative conjunctions, syntax of, 254 An, a, origin of, 107; uses of, 108; syn- tax of, 244
Anacoluthon, 266
Analysis, directions for, 216 Analytic languages, 66
And, redundant use of, 274; colloquially for to, 281
Angles, original home of, 4 Anglo-Saxon, meaning of, 5
Anomaly, in number of nouns, 89
Antecedent to relative, 125; suppressed,
Apostrophe in possessive, 98
Apposition, 233; possessive of nouns in, 98 Archaic plural forms, 88
Articles, 107; not a separate part of speech, 108; chief uses of, 109; syntax of, 244
Articulate sounds, 62
Aryan race, original home of, 24; family of languages, 24; its divisions, 26; European languages outside, 27
As, relative pronoun, 129; adverb, syn- tax of, 272, 276
'As follow' or 'As follows,' 273 Aspirates, 53
Asyndeton, 276
Attraction, 248, 251, 255
Attribute, 104; misuse of term, 251 Attributive use of adjectives, 104, 241 Aught, 129.
Augmentatives, 202
Auxiliary verbs, 138, 171 Aye, sound of diphthong in, 46
Beef, 13, 88
Better, best, 115 Breaths, 42 Brethren, 88 Bridegroom, 84
Britain, Roman conquest of, 2; English conquest of, 2
Britons a Keltic race, 2; language of, 2; what became of the, 4
But, meanings of, 64; as relative, 129; idiomatic uses of, 191
C, redundant letter, 48 Cambria, 2 Can, 174
Capital letters, when used, 60 Case, definition of, 95; derivation of, 103; in English and Latin compared, 95; in nouns and pronouns compared, 96; how to determine, 100; possessive 97;
Clause, definition of, 213 Cognate objective, 137
Cognates, 208
Collective nouns, 75; syntax of, 242, 253 Common, proper and singular nouns, 73; gender, nouns of, 80
Comparatives not followed by than, 117 Comparison of adjectives, 112; modes of marking, 114; irregular, 115; errors of syntax in, 243; pleonasm in, 116, 244; of adverbs, 182
Complement of predicate, 138, 211 Complex sentence, 194
Compounds and derivatives, 199 Compound nouns, plurals of, 91; posses- sive of, 98; relation of parts in, 200; compound gerund forms, 154, 229 Con, 174
Concord, definition of, 230; of pronouns and nouns, 246; of relative with ante- cedent, 247; of verbs and subjects, 253; rules observed in, 260 Concrete nouns, 76
Conjugation, definition of, 164; of be, 146; of simple tenses, 165; of verb with auxiliaries, 166
Conjunctions, definition of, 192; join sentences and words, 192; classifica- tion of, 193; co-ordinate, 196; sub- ordinate, 197; derived from other parts of speech, 197; correlative, 197; alter- native, syntax of, 254
Conjunctive pronouns, 125; adverbs, 180 Conquest of Britain, Roman, 2; English, 2; Norman, 5
Consonants defined, 39; classified, 43 Co-ordinate conjunctions, 193, 254
Co-ordinating use of relative pronoun, 129, 218
Ellipsis, definition of, 216; a cause of error, 274 Else, 229
'em, old dative plural of he, 122 n. Emphasis, definition of, 51
-en, feminine suffix, 82; plural suffix, 88; adjective suffix, 202; verb suffix, 203; past participle suffix, 159
English conquest of Britain, 2; who they were, 3; whence they came, 4; lan- guage formerly pure, 27; now mixed, 27; its constituents, 9 Enlargement of subject, 213; of predi-
Extension, meaning of, 212, 214
Every, etymology, 130; syntax, 242
F, plural of nouns ending in, 87
Factitive verbs, 231; object, 238; use of adjectives, 241
Family of languages, Aryan, 24; Se- mitic, 28
Gaffer and Gander, 84 ge- in yclept, 164
Gender, comparison of English and other languages as regards, 80; distinguished from sex, 80; definition of, 81; modes of marking, 82; in pronouns, 131; of nouns in apposition, 233 Genitive, see Possessive; meaning of word, 235; relations expressed by old, 101; subjective and objective, 236 Gerund, definition of, 152; compound forms of, 154, 229 Gerundial infinitive, 149
Go, 164; not an auxiliary, 156 Government, definition of, 230
Grammar, definition of, 36; divisions of, 36; an Art or a Science, 32 Greek words in English, 17 Gutturals, 44
Indo-European family of languages, 24; languages outside, 27; table of, 29 -ine, feminine suffix, 82
Infinitive mood, 149; equivalent to a noun, 149; without to, 149; simple and gerundial, 149; prolative, 212; split infinitive, 266
Inflexions, definition of, 65; in English only few, 65; mostly of English origin, 66; consequences of loss of, 67; mark- ing gender, 82; number, 86; case, 96; comparison, 114; retained in pronouns, 131; in adverbs, 182
Inflexional and non-inflexional languages,
Kine, 88 Kitten, 50
Labials, 44
Lady, 84
Lady-day, absence of possessive s, 101 Languages, table of Indo-European, 29; spoken and written, 30
Langue d'oïl and langue d'oc, 6 Lappish, 27
Last and latest, 115
'Last two' and 'two last,' 244
Latin element in English, 10; words of 1st period, 10; 2nd period, 11; 3rd period, 11; 4th period, 13; proportion of, in vocabulary, 14; in use, 15:
suffixes, 201; prefixes, 203
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