Part 162 (1/2)
Does this author appear to have gained ”a _clear idea_ of the nature of a collective noun?” 28 What great difficulty does Murray acknowledge concerning ”nouns of multitude?” 29 Does Murray's notion, that collective nouns are of different sorts, appear to be consistent or warrantable? 30
Can words that agree with the same collective noun, be of different numbers? 31 What is observed of collective nouns used partitively? 32
Which are the most apt to be taken plurally, collections of persons, or collections of things? 33 Can a collective noun, as such, take a plural adjective before it? 34 What is observed of the expressions, _these people, these gentry, these folk_? 35 What is observed of sentences like the following, in which there seeht to twelve professors?” 36 What rule does Dr Webster give for such exa: ”There _was_ rammarians teach, that two or more nouns connected by _and_, ”always require the verb or pronoun to which they refer, to be in the plural nue or furnish any exceptions to this doctrine? 39 On what principle can one justify such an example as this: ”_All work and no play, makes_ Jack a dull boy?” 40
What is re: ”Prior's _Henry and Emma contains_ an other beautiful example?” 41 What is said of the suppression of the conjunction _and_? 42 When the speaker changes his noer one, what concord has the verb? 43 When two orone, what agreerammarian approves of such expressions as, ”Two and two _is_ four?” 45 What is observed of verbs that agree with the nearest nominative, and are understood to the rest? 46 When the nominatives connected are of different persons, of what person is the verb?
LESSON XXIV--VERBS
47 What is the syntax of the verb, when one of its nominatives is expressed, and an other or others implied? 48 What is the syntax of the verb, when there are nominatives connected by _as_? 49 What is the construction when two nominatives are connected by _as well as, but_, or _save_? 50 Can words connected by _with_ be properly used as joint noes with ours prove any thing on this point? 52 What does Cobbett say about _with_ put for _and_?
53 What is the construction of such expressions as this: ”A torch, _snuff_ and _all, goes_ out in a moment?” 54 Does our rule for the verb and disjunct nominatives derive confirmation from the Latin and Greek syntax?
55 Why do collective nouns singular, when connected by _or_ or _nor_, admit of a plural verb? 56 In the expression, ”_I, thou, or he, may affirm_,” of what person and nurees with _the last nominative_?” 58 What authors prefer ”_the nearest person_,” and ”_the plural number_?” 59 What authors prefer ”the _nearest noular or plural?” 60 What author declares it improper ever to connect by _or_ or _nor_ any nominatives that require different forms of the verb? 61 What is Cobbett's ”_clear principle_” on this head? 62 Can a zeught, in spite of these authorities? 63 When a verb has nominatives of different persons or numbers, connected by _or_ or _nor_, hich of theree with the remoter nominative? 65 When a noun is implied in an adjective of a different nuarded in the for the place of the pronoun of the first person singular? 67 When verbs are connected by _and, or_, or _nor_, do they necessarily agree with the same nominative? 68 Why is the thirteenth rule of the author's Institutes and First Lines not retained as a rule in this work? 69 Are verbs often connected without agreeing in mood, tense, and form?
LESSON XXV--VERBS
70 What particular convenience do we find in having most of our tenses co of verbs elliptically, or by parts, anything peculiar to our language? 72 What faults appear in the teaching of our gra _do_ used as a ”substitute for other verbs?” 73 What notions have been entertained concerning the word _to_ as used before the infinitive verb? 74 How does Dr Ash parse _to_ before the infinitive? 75 What graoverns the infinitive ree with Murray in the ano?
77 Why do those teach just as inconsistently, who forbear to call the _to_ a preposition? 78 What objections are there to the rule, with its exceptions, ”One verb governs an other in the infinitive e exception to this rule has been recently discovered by Dr Bullions?
80 Are the countless examples of this exception truly elliptical? 81 Is the infinitive ever governed by a preposition in French, Spanish, or Italian? 82 What whiiven by Nixon? 83 Hoas the infinitive expressed in the Anglo-Saxon of the eleventh century? 84 What does Richard Johnson infer frooverned by a preposition? 85 What reasons can be adduced to show that the infinitive is not a noun? 86 How can it be proved that _to_ before the infinitive is a preposition? 87 What does Dr Wilson say of the character and _import_ of the infinitive? 88 To what other terms can the infinitive be connected? 89 What is the infinitive, and for what things may it stand? 90 Do these ten heads embrace all the uses of the infinitive? 91 What is observed of Murray's ”_infinitive made absolute_?” 92 What is said of the position of the infinitive? 93 Is the infinitive ever liable to be misplaced?
LESSON XXVI--VERBS
94 What is observed of the frequent ellipses of the verb _to be_, supposed by Allen and others? 95 What is said of the suppression of _to_ and the insertion of _be_; as, ”To make hin _to_ before an abstract infinitive, where it shows no relation? 97 What is observed concerning the distinction of _voice_ in the sira the omission of _to_ before the infinitive, after _bid, dare, feel_, &c? 99 How do Ingersoll, Kirkha such exao_?”
100 What is affir to the code of Murray? 101 How do Nutting, Kirkharee with Murray, or with one an other, in pointing out what governs the infinitive? 102 What do Murray and othersof the infinitive without _to_ ”extends only to active and neuter verbs?” 103 How is the infinitive used after _bid_? 104 How, after _dare_? 105 How, after _feel_? 106 How, after _hear_? 107 How, after _let_? 108 How, after _make_? 109 How, after _need_? 110 Is _need_ ever an auxiliary? 111 What errors are taught by Greenleaf concerning _dare_ and _need_ or _needs_?
112 What is said of _see_, as governing the infinitive? 113 Do any other verbs, besides these eight, take the infinitive after them without _to_?
114 How is the infinitive used after _have, help_, and _find_? 115 When two or more infinitives occur in the same construction, n _to_ after _than_ or _as_?
LESSON XXVII--PARTICIPLES
1 What questionable uses of participles are corammarians? 2 Why does the author incline to condemn these peculiarities?
3 What is observed of the _ may be turned? 4 What is said of the participles which some suppose to be put absolute? 5 How are participles placed? 6 What is said of the transitive use of such words as _unbecoovernment, is to be observed between a participle and a participial noun? 8 What shall we do when _of_ after the participial noun is objectionable? 9 What is said of the correction of those examples in which a needless article or possessive is put before the participle? 10
What is stated of the retaining of adverbs with participial nouns? 11 Can words having the form of the first participle be nouns, and clearly known to be such, when they have no adjuncts? 12 What strictures are made on Murray, Lennie, and Bullions, with reference to examples in which an infinitive follows the participial noun? 13 In what instances is the first participle equivalent to the infinitive? 14 What is said of certain infinitives supposed to be erroneously put for participles? 15 What verbs take the participle after them, and not the infinitive? 16 What is said of those examples in which participles seem to be made the objects of verbs?
17 What is said of the teaching of Murray and others, that, ”The participle with its adjuncts may be considered as a _substantive phrase_?”
18 How does the English participle coerund? 19 How do Dr Adalish” to become a ”substantive,” or noun? 20 How does the French construction of participles and infinitives colish?
LESSON XXVIII--PARTICIPLES
21 What difference does it _, or not? 22 What is said of the distinguishi+ng or confounding of different parts of speech, such as verbs, participles, and nouns? 23 With how many other parts of speech does W Allen confound the participle? 24 How is the distinguishi+ng of the participle from the verbal noun inculcated by Allen, and their difference ofby Murray? 25 Is it pretended that the authorities and reasons which oppose the mixed construction of participles, are sufficient to prove such usage altogether inadeneral ter of a participle should be put in the possessive case? 27 What is remarked of different cases used indiscriminately before the participle or verbal noun? 28 What say Croy? 29 What says Brown of this their teaching? 30 How do Priestley and others pretend to distinguish between the participial and the substantive use of verbals in _ing_? 31
What does Brown say of this doctrine? 32 If when a participle becoi a noun? 33 Where the sense admits of a choice of construction in respect to the participle, is not attention due to the analogy of general grammar? 34
Does it appear that nouns before participles are less frequently subjected to their governrammarian discriminate between idioms, or peculiarities, and the coerund, like the verbal in _ing_, sooverns the genitive, do we iraenitive of the agent? 38 What distinction between the participial and the substantive use of verbals in _ing_ do Crombie and others propose to make? 39 How does this accord with the views of Murray, Lowth, Adalish participle?
41 What further is re in relation to participles?