Parts of speech, 1-5; defined, 4;
how distinguished, 5.

· Party for person, 29, 51.
PECOCK, BISHOP, 139.

Per se, 186.

Periodic sentences. See Sentences.
Person, of pronouns, 9; of verbs, 13.
Personal pronouns, 9.
Pharmacie, 183-184.

Phase, 51.
Phenomena, a, 48.
Phrase, 22.

Pincers, plural noun, 45.
Pitcher or jug, 28.
Plead for argue, 113.
Plead for pleaded, 80.

Plenty, as adverb, 119.

Plural and singular nouns, 45.

Point, 51.

Political for politic, 129.
Ponder over, 151.

POPE, ALEXANDER, 30, 202.
Postal for postal card, 58.
Post-card or postal card, 28.
Posted, 29.
Précis, 183.

Predicate of sentence, 21-22.
Prepositions, defined, 3; list of, 3;
no inflections, 20; vulgarisms, 141;
misused, 142-148; list of words
requiring special prepositions, 148;
omitted, 149; redundant, 150; in
emphatic places, 265; at end of sen-
tences, 267-269.

Present use, 27; not a matter of age,

27; not a matter of origin, 27; for
verse, for prose, 27.

Prettily for pretty, 121.

Pro and con, misused, 186.

Principal parts of verb, 18.

Probate, as verb, 116.

Proceeds, plural noun, 45.
Pronounced, in French sense, 185.
Pronouns, defined, 2; personal, 9;
compound personal, 9; demonstra-
tive, 9; interrogative, 9; relative,
10; antecedent of relative, 10; recip-
rocal,10; distributive, 10; inflections,
declensions, 10; number, 10; case,
11; vulgarisms, 60-61; nominative

or objective case, 61-62; before
verbal nouns, 62-64; in -self, 64–
65; which or whom, 65; who or
whom, 65-66; than whom or than
who, 66-67; whose or of which, 67-68;
which or that, 68-69; it or that, 69;
either or any one, the latter or the
last, 69-70; each or all, 70; each
other, one another, 70; the one, the
other, 71; the one and the ones,
71-72; change from one pronoun
to another, 72-74; singular or
plural, 75-76; omitted, 77-78; re-
dundant, 78; obscurity in use of,
213-218.

Proper words in proper places,
201.

Proposition for proposal, 56.
Proven, 92.

Pseudonyme, 181.

Punctuation, uses of, 23.

Quite, 132-133.

Radii or radiuses, 48.

Railroad, as verb, 116.
Railway or railroad, 28.

Raise, as noun, 58; or rise, 81.
Reactions, 28.

Real clear, 121.

Reciprocally, redundant, 124.
Recollect of, 141.

Redundancy, of articles, 34-36; of
pronouns, 78; of adjectives and ad-
verbs, 123-125; of prepositions, 150-
151. See also Clearness; Force;
• Ease.

Referee, as verb, 117.

Regular verbs, 14.
Relation for relative, 56.

Relationship for relation, 56.
Relative for relatively, 121.
Relative pronouns, 10.
Remember of, 141.
Repeat, as noun, 58.

Reputable use, defined, 29; sources
of words not in, 29.
Respective, redundant, 124.
Restitute for restore, 115–116.
Resurrect, 116.

SCOTT, SIR WALTER, 188.
Scumbling, 28.

-Self, pronouns in, 9, 64–65.
Sensible for sensitive, 129.
Sentence-endings, 108, 267-269.
Sentences, defined, 20-21; subject
and predicate of, 21-22; copula, 21-
22; simple sentences, 22; compound
sentences, 22; complex sentences,
22; phrase, 22; clause, 23; kinds of
clauses, 23; punctuation, 23; charac-
teristics of a good sentence, 201-202;
foreign idioms, 203-205; clearness,
212-230; force, 231-252; how to begin
a sentence, 242-243; how to end a
sentence, 244-248, 249-252; antithe-
sis, 248; climax, 249-252; ease, 253-
269; unity, 270-283; long or short
sentences, 285-295; examples of short
and long, 286-287; objections to long
and to short, 288; advantages of long,
288-291; advantages of short, 291-
295; periodic or loose, 296-301; ad-
vantages of periodic, 296–239; advan-
tages of loose, 299-301; principles
of choice, 302; sentences in a para-
graph, 306-312. See Clearness;
Ease; Force; Unity.
Series for succession, 52.
Set or sit, 81.

Shall and will. See Will and shall.
She or her, 62.

Shears, plural noun, 45.

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE, 192.
Shew for showed, 80.

Shocked by electricity, 113.

Short sentences. See Sentences.
Short words. See Words.

Sprang and sprung, 91.
Start in, 124.

State, as verb, 113-114.
Statement for assertion, 52.
Station or dépôt, 28, 184–185.
Steed, 27.

STEELE, SIR RICHARD, 188.
STEVENSON, R. L., 249.
STEWART, DUGALD, 82.
Stimulation for s'imulus, 56.
Stop for stay, 114.
Strata, that, 48.

Street railway or tramway, 28.
Strike oil, 28.

Strong verbs, 14.

Subject of verb, 8; of sentence, 21-22.
Subjunctive mood, defined, 16; cor-
rect use of, 99; indicative for, 99–100;
incorrect use of, 100-101.
Subordinate clauses, 23.
Subvention for subsidy, 29.
Success, a, 52.

Suds, plural noun, 45.
Suggestive words, 197.
Summons, as verb, 116.
Swang for swung, 80.
SWINBURNE, A. C., 205.
Syllabuses or syllabi, 48.

Tableaux was, 48.
Take or take in, 28.

tance of, 270; an affair of thought,
270; in point of form, 270–275; lack
of unity from change in point of
view, 271; incoherence in other
forms, 272-275; unity in point of
substance, 275-283; lack of unity
from having too much in a sentence,
275-281; lack of unity from having
too little in a sentence, 281-283.
Up, redundant, 124-125; useful, 125.
Us for we, 62.

Use, good, 27-31; present, 27; na-
tional, 28; reputable, 29.

Usual average, 124.

Vale, 27.

Variety, value of, 197, 302.

Verbal nouns, 18; pronouns with,
62-64.

Verbs, defined, 1; transitive, 12; in-

transitive, 12; inflections, conjuga-
tions, 12-19; person, 13; tense, 13-
15; regular, weak, or new, 14;
irregular, strong, or old, 14; parti-
ciple, 14, 17, 18; auxiliary verbs, 14;
mood, 15-17; principal parts, 18;
verbal nouns, 18; voice, 18-19; predi-
cate, 21-22; copula, 21-22; vulgar-
isms, 79-82; may or can, 82-83;
must, 83; will or shall, 83-88; would
or should, 88-90; correct and incor-

rect forms, 90-93; questions of tense,
93-98; indicative or subjunctive, 98--
101; singular or plural, 101-106; with
collective nouns, 106-108; omitted,
108-109; misused, 109-115; list of
misused, 115; not verbs, 115-117.
See Voice; Participle.
Verdict, 52-53.
Vertebrae was, 48.

Very, with participles and adjectives,
133-134.

Very pleased, 133-134.
Vitals, plural noun, 45.

Vocabulary, how to enlarge, 171.
Voice, active, 18-19; passive, 18-19;
active or passive, 235-238.
Vulgarisms, in pronouns, 60-61; in
verbs, 79-82; in adjectives and ad-
verbs, 118–120; in prepositions, 141;
in conjunctions, 152.

Will and shall, 83-88; general rule for
use of, 83-84; correct use of, in first
person, 84; incorrect use of, in
first person, 84; correct use of, in
second person, 85; correct use of shall
in third person, 85; doctrine of cour-
tesy, 86; why few mistakes in second
and third persons, 86; correct use of,
in dependent clauses, 86; incorrect
use of, in dependent clauses, 87; use
of shall in prediction, 87; correct use
of, in interrogative sentences, 88; in-
correct use of, in interrogative sen-
tences, 88; shall in Early English,
89.

With for at, by, from, to, 147-148.
Without for unless, 152.
Woke for waked, 93.
Women-clerks for woman-clerks, 46.
Wordiness. See Redundancy.
Words, how to accumulate, 171; over-
worked, 172; bookish or living, 173;
short or long, 174-180; sources of
short, 174; advantages of short, 174–
175; advantages of long, 175-176;
big, 176-180; foreign, 181-186; gen-
eral and specific, 187-191; defined,
187; uses of general, 187; technical,
187; general, in poetry and in prose,
188; uses of specific, 188-191; spe-
cific, in poetry and in prose, 189–191;
literal or figurative, 192-196; figures
that are not figures, 193-195; what
figures may do, 195-196; what makes
a good figure, 196; principles of
choice, 197; in sentences, 201.
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, 189, 195,
217, 221.

Worth or worthy, 130.

Would and should, 88-90; peculiar
uses of, 88-89; general rule for use
of, 89; correct use of, 89; incorrect
use of, 89-90; use with like, be will-
ing, wish, 90.