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

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of a perfect alphabet. :

2. General observations

sounds of the letters.

3. The nature of articulation ex-

ranging them.

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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.
Remarks on the subject of com-

CHAP. 6. Of verbs.

SECT. 1. Of the nature of verbs in general.

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Of number and person.

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Of moods and participles.

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Remarks on the potential mood.
Of the tenses. : : : : : :
The conjugation of the auxiliary

verbs to have and to be. : :
7. The auxiliary verbs conjugated in
their simple form; with ob-
servations on their peculiar na-
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8. The conjugation of regular verbs.
9. Observations on passive verbs.
10. Of irregular verbs. : : : :
Of defective verbs, and of the
different ways in which verbs

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Of several nouns joined by copulatives.
O nouns connected by disjunctives.

Of nouns of multitude. : : : : :
Of one noun governing another in the pos-

sessive case.

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Of the syntax of the pronoun.

Of pronouns agreeing with their antecedents.
Of the relative being nominative to the verb.
Of the relative preceded by nominatives of

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Of the syntax of the adjective.

Of the syntax of the verb.

Of the verb's agreement with the nominative

case.

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Of verb's active requiring the objective case.
Of one verb governing another in the infini-

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Of verbs related in point of time.
Of the syntax of the participle.
Of the rules respecting adverbs.
Of the position of adverbs.
Of two negatives. :
Of the syntax of prepositions.
Of the syntax of conjunctions.

Of conjunctions connecting the same moods,

tenses, and cases. :

Of conjunctions requiring the subjunctive
mood, &c. : :: : : : :

Of the syntax of interjections.

Of comparisons by the conjunction than or as.
Directions respecting the ellipsis. : : : :
General rule of syntax. : : :

Directions for parsing.

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CHAP. 1.

Of pronunciation.

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Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with re-
spect to single words and phrases.

Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect
to the construction of sentences.

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Of the clearness of a sentence.
Of the unity of a sentence.
CHAP 3. Of the strength of a sentence.

CHAP 4. Of figures of speech.

ADDRESS TO YOUNG STUDENTS.

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