APPENDIX.

RULES AND OBSERVATIONS FOR PROMOTING PERSPICUITY
AND ACCURACY IN WRITING.

PART I.

Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to single

Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to the

construction of sentences.

СНАР. 1.

CHAP. 2.

CHAP. 3.

CHAP. 4.

Of the clearness of a sentence...... 445

Of the unity of a sentence...... 452

Of the strength of a sentence

Of figures of speech

459

486

PART III.

Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to the great

principle which, on all occasions, decides the propriety of language.

Page.

The nature and characters of the

use which gives law to language 520

CHAP. 1.

SECT. 1.

Of reputable use

521

524

526

CHAP. 2.

SECT. 1.

2.

The nature and use of verbal criti-

cism, with its principal canons 531

Good use not always uniform in her decisions 532

Every thing favoured by good use, not on

that account worthy to be retained......... 535

ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE THIRD OCTAVO EDITION.

THE improvements contained in the THIRD EDITION of the OCTAVO Grammar, consist of many corrections and alterations of particular passages, in the first volume, and of more than forty pages of additional matter, dispersed in various parts of it; and also of a considerable modification of the first part of the second volume; namely, the Exercises which respect the nature and principles of Parsing. The last section under the head of Parsing, contains a large number of recent exercises on some of the more difficult rules of grammar: and they are exhibited in a peculiar form, calculated to give the student a radical and satisfactory view of those rules.

The author indulges a hope, that these enlargements and variations will meet the approbation of

the judicious reader; and render the new edition, what he has sedulously endeavoured to make it, a material improvement of the work.

He also ventures to presume, that the numerous exemplifications, of a moral and improving nature, with which all the editions of the work are interspersed; and the short subsidiary disquisitions of the present edition, as well as those of former impressions; will afford some relief to the subject of grammar, and render it less dry and uninteresting to the student. Perhaps they will be found to contribute, in some degree, to invite and encourage him to acquire an art, which, in its own nature, does not, to young minds especially, present many attractions.

HOLDGATE, near YORK,-1816.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR is the art of speaking and writing the English language with propriety...... It is divided into four parts, viz.

1. ORTHOGRAPHY,

2. ETYMOLOGY,

3. SYNTAX, AND

4. PROSODY.

THIS division may be rendered more intelligible to the student, by observing, in other words, that Grammar treats,

First, of the form and sound of the letters, the combination of letters into syllables, and syllables into words; Secondly, of the different sorts 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 just pronunciation, and poetical construction of sentences.

Grammar may be considered as consisting of two species, Universal and Particular. Grammar in general, or Universal Grammar, explains the principles which are common to all languages. Particular Grammar applies those general principles to a particular language, modifying them according to the genius of that tongue, and the established practice of the best speakers and writers by whom it is used.