Part 11 (2/2)

The established practice of grammarians requires that I should here treat of the Syntax; but our language has so little inflection, or variety of terminations, that its construction neither requires nor adlected it; and Jonson, whose desire of following the writers upon the learned languages made him think a syntax indispensably necessary, has published such petty observations as were better orees with the noood; He runs to death

Our adjectives and pronouns are invariable

Of two substantives the noun possessive is in the genitive; as, His father's glory; The sun's heat

Verbs transitive require an oblique case; as, He loves me; You fear hiave this to me; He took this from me; He says this of me; He came with me

PROSODY

It is coes, to olected by Buolish by Wallis, Cooper, and even by Jonson, though a poet But as the laws of ht proper to insert them

PROSODY comprises orthoepy, or the rules of pronunciation; and orthometry, or the laws of versification

pronunciation is just, when every letter has its proper sound, and every syllable has its proper accent, or, which in English versification is the same, its proper quantity

The sounds of the letters have been already explained; and rules for the accent or quantity are not easily to be given, being subject to innumerable exceptions Such, however, as I have read or formed, I shall here propose

1 Of dissyllables, for a termination, the fordom, actest, acted, toilsome, lover, scoffer, fairer, foremost, zealous, fulness, Godly,a syllable to the radical word, have coet, to beseem, to bestow

3 Of dissyllables, which are at once nouns and verbs, the verb has commonly the accent on the latter, and the noun on the former syllable; as, to descant, a descant; to cement, a cement; to contract, a contract

This rule has h verbs seldom have their accent on the forht, perfu in y, as cranny; in our, as labour, favour; in ow, as allow, except allow; in le, as battle, bible; in ish, as banish; in ck, as cae, in en, as fasten; in et, as quiet; accent the former syllable

5 Dissyllable nouns in er, as canker, butter, have the accent on the for in a consonant and e final, as co in the last syllable, as appease, reveal; or ending in two consonants, as attend; have the accent on the latter syllable

7 Dissyllable nouns having a diphthong in the latter syllable, have commonly their accent on the latter syllable, as applause; except words in ain, certain,a ter a syllable, retain the accent of the radical word; as, loveliness, tenderness, conte, assurance

9 Trissyllables ending in ous, as gracious, arduous; in al, as capital; in ion, asin ce, ent, and ate, accent the first syllable, as countenance, continence, arate, except they be derived fro the accent on the last, as connivance, acquaintance; or the ate

11 Trissyllables ending in y, as entity, specify, liberty, victory, subsidy, commonly accent the first syllable

12 Trissyllables in re or le accent the first syllable, as legible, theatre, except disciple, and some words which have a position, as example, epistle

13 Trissyllables in ude commonly accent the first syllable, as plenitude

14 Trissyllables ending in ator or atour, as creatour; or having in the , as endeavour; or a vowel before two consonants, as domestick; accent the middle syllable

15 Trissyllables that have their accent on the last syllable are coazine, or words for one or two syllables to an acute syllable, as ie