rmination -ly 354
499. _To walk and ride_ 354
500. _From whence_, &c. 354, 355

CHAPTER XXV.

ON PREPOSITIONS.

501. _Climb up a tree_ 356
502. _Part of the body_ 356

CHAPTER XXVI.

ON CONJUNCTIONS.

503, 504. Their nature 357-359
505. Their government 359
506-511. The subjunctive mood 359-364
512. Use of _that_ 364
513. Succession of tenses 364
514. Disjunctives 365

CHAPTER XXVII.

THE SYNTAX OF THE NEGATIVE.

515. Its place 366
516. Its distribution 366
517. Two negatives 367
518. Questions of appeal 367

CHAPTER XXVIII.

ON THE CASE ABSOLUTE.

519. Its participial character 369

PART VI.

PROSODY.

520. Derivation of the word 371
521, 522. Importance of accent 371
523-526. Measures 372, 373
527. Metrical notation 374
528-535. Rhyme 374-377
536. Blank verse 377
537, 538. Last syllable indifferent 378
539, 540. Names of common English metres 379-384

PART VII.

DIALECTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

541. Saxons and Angles 385
542-544. Dialects not coincident 385, 386
545, 546. Traces of the Danes 386, 387
547 Mercian origin of the written English 387

NOTES 393

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AN INTRODUCTION

TO THE STUDY OF

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

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PART I.

GENERAL ETHNOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

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CHAPTER I.

GERMANIC ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.--DATE.

s. 1. The first point to be remembered in the history of the English
language, is that it was not the primitive and original tongue of any of
the British Islands, nor yet of any portion of them. Indeed, of the _whole_
of Great Britain it is not the language at the present moment. Welsh is
spoken in Wales, Manks in the Isle of