The Grammar of English Grammars Part 281
_Series_, of terms, proper use of the _articles_ in, --of words, how to be commaed.
_Set_ and _sit_, signif. and employment of.
_s.e.x_, to what persons ascribed; why a young child may be spoken of without distinc. of, --whether animals may be represented as of no, --inanimate objects fig. represented as having.
--_s.e.xes_, distinction of, by _words_, in diff. ways, --denoted by _terminat_. of words, --designated by _proper names_.
_Shall_, verb, how varied, --original signif. of, --explet. use of.
--_Shall_ and _will_, discriminative application of, in the fut. indic.
_Sheridan, T._, actor and orthoepist, his literary reputation; the worth of his writings.
_Side_, noun, peculiarities of usage in regard to.
_Silent_, or _mute_, when a letter is said to be.
_Silliness, literary_, Crit. N. concerning.
_Simile_, explained.
_Since_, improp. use of, for _ago_, --derivation of, from Anglo-Sax.
_Sit_ and _set_, use and signif. of.
_So_, as expressing the sense of a preced. word or phrase, --derivation of, from Sax.
--_So --as, as --so_, correspondents.
_Soever_ or _soe'er_, whether a word or only a part of an other word; how explained by WEBST.
_Solemn style_, as distinguished from the familiar, --should not be displaced from the paradigms in a grammar, --is not adapted to familiar discourse, --pres. and pret. terminations of, what, and how uttered, --examp. of, second pers. sing., negat., throughout the verb LOVE, conjugated.
_Some_, cla.s.sed, --vulg. used for _somewhat_, or _in some degree_, ("SOME _longer_,"
SANB.). _Somehow_ or _other, somewhere_ or _other_, what the construc. _Somewhere, nowhere, anywhere_, &c., their cla.s.s, and how should be written.
_Sort_, see _Kind_.
_Sound_, of a letter, commonly called its _power_, --_elementary_, of the voice, defined.
--_Sounds_, simp. or primary, numb. in Eng., --elementary, what meant by; are few in numb.; their _combinations_ may be innumerable.
--_Vowel_ sounds, or vocal elements, how produced, and where heard; what those in Eng., and how may be modified in the format. of syllables; do., how may be written, and how uttered.
--_Consonant sounds_, simp., in Eng., how many, and what; by what letters marked; in what words heard.
--_Sounds_, long and short, SIGNS used to denote them.
--_Sounds_, a knowledge of, how acquired, --importance of being early taught to p.r.o.nounce those of one's native lang.
--Pa.s.sage exemplifying _all the letters_, and _all the_ SOUNDS, in Eng.
--_Sounds of the Letters_, treated.
_Speak, to speak_, what is meant by.
_Speaker_, why often speaks of himself in the third pers., --represents himself and others by _we_, --in Eng., should mention himself last.
--The _elegant speaker_, by what distinguished.
_Species_ and _figure_ of words, what so called, --unsettled usage of the lang. with regard to what relates to the latter. _Species_ and _genus_ of things, how admits limitation by the article.
SPELLING, defined.
--_Spelling_, how to be acquired, --cause of the difficulty of its acquisition, --Rules for, --_usage_, as a law of, --uniformity and consistency in, how only can be attained.
--The _right spelling_ of a word, what, PHILOLOG. Mus.
--_Oral spelling_, how should be conducted.
--Charac. of BROWN'S rules for _spelling_.
_Spondee_, defined.
_St_, unsyllab. suffix, whether, wherever found, is a modem contrac. of the syllable _est_.
_Standards_ of English _orthog._, the books proposed as such, abound in errors and inconsistencies.
--Whether we have a system of Eng. ORTHOEPY worthy to be accounted a STANDARD.
_Stanza_, defined.
--_Stanzas_, uniformity of, in the same poem, --varieties of, --_Elegiac stanza_, described.
--_Stanzas, lyric_, examples of, --"A GOOD NAME," ("two beautiful little _stanzas_," BROWN).
_Star_, or _asterisk_, use of.
--_Three stars_, or _asterism_,
_Stenotone_, or _breve_, for what used.
_Stops_, in printing or writing, see _Points_.
_Strength_, as a quality of style, in what consists, --essentials of, --Precepts aiming at offences against.
_Strew_, whether, or not, an other mode of spelling _strow_; whether to be distinguished in utterance from do.; whether reg. or irreg.
STYLE, qualities of, treated.
--_Style_, as connected with synt., what, --differs from mere words and mere grammar; not regulated entirely by rules of construc., --what relation has to the author himself, and what shows, --general characters of, by what epithets designated.
--What must be remembered by the learner, in forming his _style_; a good _style_ how acquired.
--_Style, solemn, familiar_, &c., as used in gram., what meant by.
--(See _Solemn Style_.)
_Subaudition_, meaning of the term. _Subdisjunctive_ particle, of the Latins, expressed in Eng. by _or_ of alternat.
_Subject_ of a finite verb, what, and how may be known, --must be the NOM. CASE, --what besides a noun or p.r.o.noun may be.
--_Subject phrases_, joint, what agreements require.
--_Subject_ and _predicate_, in a.n.a.lysis. See also _Nominative Case_.
_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. p.r.o.noun, --proper limits of, --how properly employed.
--_False subj_.
--_Subj. mood_, not necessarily governed by _if, lest_, &c.