| 522-524. That, which, what | 422 |
| 525. The man as rides to market | 423 |
| 526, 527. Plural use of whose | 423 |
| 528, 529. Concord of relative and antecedent | 423 |
| 530. Ellipsis of the relative | 424 |
| 531. Relative equivalent to demonstrative pronoun | 425 |
| Demonstrative equivalent to substantive | 425 |
| 532. Omission of antecedent | 426 |
| 533. Χρῶμαι βιβλίοις οἷς ἔχω | 426 |
| 534. Relatives with complex antecedents | 427 |
| CHAPTER X. |
| ON THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS. |
| 535. Direct and oblique interrogations | 428 |
| 536-539. Whom do they say that it is? | 428-430 |
| CHAPTER XI. |
| THE RECIPROCAL CONSTRUCTION. |
| 540, 541. Structure of reciprocal expressions | 431 |
| CHAPTER XII. |
| THE INDETERMINATE PRONOUNS. |
| 542. On dit=one says | 433 |
| 543-546. It and there | 433 |
| Es sind | 434 |
| CHAPTER XIII. |
| THE ARTICLES. |
| 547. Repetition of article | 435 |
| CHAPTER XIV. |
| THE NUMERALS. |
| 548. The thousand-and-first | 436 |
| 549. The first two and two first | 436 |
| CHAPTER XV. |
| ON VERBS IN GENERAL. |
| 550. Transitive verbs | 437 |
| 551. Auxiliary verbs | 438 |
| 552. Verb substantive | 438 |
| CHAPTER XVI. |
| THE CONCORD OF VERBS. |
| 553-556. Concord of person | 439 |
| 557. Plural subjects with singular predicates | 443 |
| Singular subjects with plural predicates | 443 |
| CHAPTER XVII. |
| ON THE GOVERNMENT OF VERBS. |
| 558, 559. Objective and modal government | 444 |
| 560. Appositional construction | 445 |
| 561. Verb and genitive case | 448 |
| 562. Verb and accusative case | 448 |
| 563. The partitive construction | 448 |
| 564. I believe it to be him | 448 |
| 565. φημὶ εἶναι δεσπότης | 449 |
| 566. It is believed to be | 449 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. |
| ON THE PARTICIPLES. |
| 567. Dying-day | 451 |
| 568. I am beaten | 451 |
| CHAPTER XIX. |
| ON THE MOODS. |
| 569. The infinitive mood | 452 |
| 570. Objective construction | 452 |
| 570. Gerundial construction | 453 |
| 571. Peculiarities of imperatives | 454 |
| 572. Syntax of subjunctives | 454 |
| CHAPTER XX. |
| ON THE TENSES. |
| 573. Present form habitual | 455 |
| 574. Præterite form aorist | 455 |
| CHAPTER XXI. |
| SYNTAX OF THE PERSONS OF VERBS. |
| 575, 576. I, or he am (is) wrong | 456 |
| CHAPTER XXII. |
| ON THE VOICES OF VERBS. |
| 577. The word hight | 458 |
| CHAPTER XXIII. |
| ON THE AUXILIARY VERBS. |
| 578. Classification | 459 |
| 579. Time and tense | 461 |
| Present | 461 |
| Aorist | 461 |
| Future | 461 |
| Imperfect | 462 |
| Perfect | 462 |
| Pluperfect | 462 |
| Future present | 462 |
| Future præterite | 462 |
| Emphatic tenses | 463 |
| Predictive future | 463 |
| Promissive future | 463 |
| 580. Historic present | 463 |
| 581. Use of perfect for present | 464 |
| 582, 583. Varieties of tense | 465 |
| Continuance | 465 |
| Habit | 466 |
| 584. Inference of continuance | 466 |
| Inference of contrast | 467 |
| 585. Have with a participle | 467 |
| 586. I am to speak | 469 |
| 587. I am to blame | 469 |
| 588. Shall and will | 469 |
| 589. Archdeacon Hare's theory | 470 |
| 590. Mr. De Morgan's theory | 472 |
| 591. I am beaten | 474 |
| 592, 593. Present use of ought, &c. | 475 |
| CHAPTER XXIV. |
| THE SYNTAX OF ADVERBS. |
| 594. The syntax of adverbs simple | 477 |
| 595. Full for fully, &c. | 477 |
| 596. The termination -ly | 477 |
| 597. To sleep the sleep of the righteous | 478 |
| 598. From whence, &c. | 478 |
| CHAPTER XXV. |
| ON PREPOSITIONS. |
| 599. All prepositions govern cases | 479 |
| 600, 601. None, in English, govern genitives | 479 |
| 602. Dative case after prepositions | 481 |
| 603. From to die | 481 |
| 604. For to go | 481 |
| 605. No prepositions in composition | 481 |
| CHAPTER XXVI. |
| ON CONJUNCTIONS. |
| 606. Syntax of conjunctions | 482 |
| 607. Convertibility of conjunctions | 482 |
| 608. Connexion of prepositions | 483 |
| 609, 610. Relatives and conjunctions | 484 |
| 611. Government of mood | 485 |
| 612. Conditional propositions | 486 |
| 613. Variations of meaning | 486 |
| 614. If and since | 487 |
| 615. Use of that | 487 |
| 616. Succession of tenses | 488 |
| Succession of moods | 489 |
| 617. Greek constructions | 489 |
| 618. Be for may be | 491 |
| 619. Disjunctives | 491 |
| 620-623. Either, neither | 492 |
| CHAPTER XXVII. |
| THE SYNTAX OF THE NEGATIVE. |
| 624. Position of the negative | 495 |
| 625. Distribution of the negative | 495 |
| 626. Double negative | 496 |
| 627. Questions of appeal | 496 |
| 628. Extract from Sir Thomas More | 496 |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. |
| OF THE CASE ABSOLUTE. |
| 629. He excepted, him excepted | 498 |
| ———— |
| PART VI. |
| PROSODY. |
| 630-632. Metre | 499 |
| 633. Classical metres measured by quantities | 500 |
| 634. English metre measured by accents | 500 |
| 635. Alliteration | 500 |
| 636. Rhyme | 501 |
| 637. Definition of Rhyme | 503 |
| 638. Measures | 503 |
| 639. Dissyllabic and trisyllabic | 503 |
| 640. Dissyllabic measures | 504 |
| 641. Trisyllabic measures | 504 |
| 642. Measures different from feet | 505 |
| 643. Couplets, stanzas, &c. | 506 |
| 644, 645. Names of elementary metres | 507, 508 |
| 646. Scansion | 509 |
| 647. Symmetrical metres | 509 |
| 648. Unsymmetrical metres | 510 |
| 649. Measures of one and of four syllables | 510 |
| 650. Contrast between English words and English metre | 510 |
| 651-653. The classical metres as read by Englishmen | 511, 512 |
| 654-657. Reasons against the classical nomenclature as applied to English metres | 513-515 |
| 658-661. The classical metres metrical to English readers—why | 515-517 |
| 662. Symmetrical metres | 517 |
| 663. Unsymmetrical metres | 517 |
| 664. Classical metres unsymmetrical | 518 |
| 665-667. Conversion of English into classical metres | 519, 520 |
| 668, 669. Cæsura | 520, 521 |
| 670-672. English hexameters, &c. | 522-526 |
| 673. Convertible metres | 526 |
| 674. Metrical and grammatical combinations | 527 |
| 675. Rhythm | 528 |
| 676, 677. Rhyme—its parts | 529 |
| ———— |
| PART VII. |
| THE DIALECTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. |
| 678. Bearing of the investigation | 531 |
| 679. Structural and ethnological views | 531 |
| 680-682. Causes that effect change | 532 |
| 683, 684. Preliminary notices | 533 |
| 685. Philological preliminaries | 533 |
| 686, 687. Present provincial dialects | 534-540 |
| 688-691. Caution | 540-544 |
| 692-696. Districts north of the Humber | 545-552 |
| 697. South Lancashire | 552 |
| 698. Shropshire, &c. | 553 |
| 699. East Derbyshire, &c. | 553 |
| 700. Norfolk and Suffolk | 554 |
| 701. Leicestershire, &c. | 555 |
| 702. Origin of the present written language | 555 |
| 703. Dialects of the Lower Thames | 556 |
| 704. Kent—Frisian theory | 557 |
| 705. Sussex, &c. | 559 |
| 706. Supposed East Anglian and Saxon frontier | 560 |
| 707. Dialects of remaining counties | 560 |
| 708. Objections | 561 |
| 709. Dialect of Gower | 561 |
| 710. —— the Barony of Forth | 563 |
| 711. Americanisms | 565 |
| 712. Extract from a paper of Mr. Watts | 566 |
| 713. Gypsy language, &c. | 572 |
| 714. Talkee-talkee | 573 |
| 715, 716. Varieties of the Anglo-Norman | 574 |
| 717-719. Extracts from Mr. Kemble | 575-580 |
| Praxis | 581 |
