Manual of English Grammar and Composition | Date: 13 April 2011, 08:15
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The manual consists of 5 parts: PART I - PARSING AND ANALYSIS, PART II - COMPOSITION: FORCE AND PROPRIETY OF DICTION, PART III - ENLARGEMENT OF VOCABULARY: FIGURES OF SPEECH, PART IV - PROSE AND POETRY, PART V. — HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE, INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND SELECTED WORDS. Part I deals with parts of Grammar like noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, pariciples, Gerund, adverb, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, Part II deals with sentence, common errors, emphasis, punctuation, Part III - Teutonic Prefixes and Suffixes, Romanic Prefixes and Suffixes, Greek Prefixes and Suffixes), Part IV - 1. Prosody, Poetic Diction, Part V - English - From Middle age till today, Borrowings, Notes on affixes and accidence
CONTENTS
PART I - PARSING AND ANALYSIS
1. ANALYSIS IN-OUTLINE
2. THE PARTS OF SPEECH IN OUTLINE : PHRASES
1. The Parts of Speech.
2. Classification of Phrases.
3.NOUNS
1. The kinds of Nouns.
2. Gender.
3. Number.
4. Case.
4. ADJECTIVES
1. The kinds of Adjectives.
2. The two Uses of Adjectives.
3. Comparison of Adjectives.
5. PRONOUNS
1. Personal Pronouns.
2. Demonstrative Pronouns
3. Relative or Conjunctive Pronouns.
4. Interrogative Pronoun.
6. VERBS
1. The kinds of Verbs.
2. Transitive Verbs.
3. Intransitive Verbs.
4. Auxiliary Verbs.
5. Active and Passive Voices.
6. Complete Conjugation of a Verb in the Finite Moods.
7. Indicative Mood.
8. Imperative Mood.
9. Subjunctive Mood.
10. Infinitive Mood.
11. Participles.
12. Gerunds and Verbal Nouns.
13. The Strong and Weak Conjugations.
14. Defective, Irregular, and Impersonal Verbs.
7. ADVERBS
1. The Functions of Adverbs.
2. The kinds of Adverbs.
3. Comparison of Adverbs.
4. Verbs compounded with Adverbs.
5. The two Uses of Adverbs.
8. PREPOSITIONS
9. CONJUNCTIONS
1. Co-ordinative Conjunctions.
2. Subordinative Conjunctions.
10. INTERJECTIONS
11. THE SAME WORD AS DIFFERENT PARTS OF SPEECH
12. SYNTAX AND PARSING
13. ANALYSIS IN DETAIL
1. Sentences Simple, Compound, and Complex.
2. Scheme of Analysis in Detail.
3. Degrees of Subordination.
EXAMPLES IN PARSING AND ANALYSIS
EXAMPLES IN DIRECT AND INDIRECT NARRATION
PART II - COMPOSITION: FORCE AND PROPRIETY OF DICTION
14. PUNCTUATION, OR THE RIGHT USE OF STOPS
15. THE NORMAL ORDER OF WORDS
16. INVERSION OF THE NORMAL ORDER: EMPHASIS
17. STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES
18. PURITY OF DICTION
19. PROPRIETY OF DICTION
1. Common Errors in the Use of Common Words.
2. Words used in Wrong Senses or Wrong Connections.
PLURALS IN SPECIAL SENSES
20. PERSPICUITY OR CLEARNESS OF DICTION
1. Grammatical Precautions.
2. The Obscure.
3. The Double Meaning.
21. SIMPLICITY OR EASE OF DICTION
22. BREVITY OR TERSENESS OF DICTION
23. ELEGANCE OF DICTION
PART III - ENLARGEMENT OF VOCABULARY: FIGURES OF SPEECH
24. ENLARGEMENT BY COMPOSITION
1. Unrelated or Juxtapositional Compounds.
2. Related or Syntactical Compounds.
25. ENLARGEMENT BY PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
1. Teutonic Prefixes.
2. Teutonic Suffixes.
3. Romanic Prefixes.
4. Romanic Suffixes.
5. Greek Prefixes.
6. Greek Suffixes.
7. Some General Results, with Questions.
26. FIGURES OF RHETORIC
27. ENLARGEMENT OF VOCABULARY BY METAPHOR AND METONYMY
PART IV - PROSE AND POETRY
28. MAIN DIVISIONS OF PROSE-COMPOSITION
1. Classification according to Matter.
2. Classification according to Form.
29. PROSODY AND POETIC DICTION
1. Prosody.
2. Poetic Diction.
30. MAIN DIVISIONS OF POETRY
PART V - HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE
31. ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF ENGLISH
1. English and Cognate Languages.
2 Old English.
3. Middle English.
4. Modern English.
32. BORROWINGS
1. Celtic
2. Danish or Later Scandian.
3. Dutch.
4. Latin.
5. French.
6. Greek.
7. Modern
Borrowings: Miscellaneous.
33. NOTES ON AFFIXES AND ACCIDENCE
1. Origin of Teutonic Affixes.
2. Noun Forms.
3. Adjective Forms.
4. Pronoun Forms.
5. Verb Forms
INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND SELECTED WORDS
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