CHAP. I. PART I. ORTHOGRAPHY. SECT. I. Of the nature of the letters, and of a perfect alphabet. : : : : 13 General obfervations on the founds 3. The nature of articulation explained. 31 The conjugation of the auxiliary verbs to have and to be. : : : 86 The auxiliary verbs conjugated in their fimple form; with obferva- tions on their peculiar nature and 8. The conjugation of regular verbs. 9. Obfervations on paffive verbs. : : 108 Of one noun governing another in the poffeffive cafe. : : : : : :- : : ::: : 169 Of the fyntax of the pronoun. Of pronouns agreeing with their antecedents. : 148 : : : : : : : : : 155 Of the fyntax of the adjective. Of the fyntax of the verb. : : : : 156 : Of the verb's agreement with the nominative cafe. 139 Of verbs related in point of time. : : Of the fyntax of the participle. : : :: 183 : : 99 : 186 Of conjunctions connecting the fame moods, tenfes, and cafes. : : :: ::: : : 194 Of conjunctions requiring the fubjunctive mood, &c. : : : ::: : : : : : : 195 Of the fyntax of interjections. PART. IV.PROSODY. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ENGLISH NGLISH GRAMMAR is the art of speaking and writing the English language with propriety. It is divided into four parts, viz. ORTHOGRAPHY, ETYMOLOGY, SYNTAX, and PROSODY. This divifion may be rendered more intelligible to young minds, by obferving, in other words, that Grammar treats, firf, of the form and found of the letters, the combination of letters into fyllables, and syllables into words; secondly, of the different forts of words, their various modifications, and their derivation; thirdly, of the union and right order of words in the formation of a sentence; and lastly, of the juft pronunciation, and poetical conftruction of fentences. SECT. I. Of the nature of the letters, and of a perfect alphabet. An articulate found, is the found of the human voice, formed by the organs of speech. Orthography teaches the nature and powers of letters, and the just method of spelling words. A letter is the first principle or leaft part of a word. The letters of the English language, called the English Alphabet, are twenty-fix in number. B |