hat of the solemn style, such
verbal or participial terminations as can be so uttered, are usually sunk
by _synaeresis_ into mere modifications of preceding syllables. The
terminational consonants, if not uttered with one vowel, must be uttered
with an other. When, therefore, a vowel is entirely suppressed in
pronunciation, (whether retained in writing or not,) the consonants
connected with it, necessarily fall into an other syllable: thus, _tried,
triest, sued, suest, loved, lovest, mov'd, mov'st_, are monosyllables; and
_studied, studiest, studi'dst, argued, arguest, argu'dst_, are
dissyllables; except in solemn discourse, in which the _e_ is generally
retained and made vocal.

SECTION III.--FIGURES OF SYNTAX.

A Figure of Syntax is an intentional deviation from the ordinary
construction of words. The principal figures of Syntax are five; namely,
_El-lip'-sis, Ple'-o-nasm, Syl-lep'-sis, En-al'-la-ge_, and
_Hy-per'-ba-ton._ EXPLANATIONS.

I. _Ellipsis_ is the omission of some word or words which are necessary to
complete the construction, but not necessary to convey the meaning. Such
words are said, in technical phrase, to be _understood_;[477] because they
are received as belonging to the sentence, though they are not uttered.

Of compound sentences, a vast many are more or less elliptical; and
sometimes, for brevity's sake, even the most essential parts of a simple
sentence, are suppressed;[478] as, "But more of this hereafter."--_Harris's
Hermes_, p. 77. This means, "But _I shall say_ more of this hereafter."
"Prythee, peace."--_Shak._ That is, "_I pray_ thee, _hold thou thy_ peace."

There may be an omission of any of the parts of speech, or even of a whole
clause, when this repeats what precedes; but the omission of mere articles
or interjections can scarcely constitute a proper ellipsis, because these
parts of speech, wherever they are really necessary to be recognized, ought
to be expressed.

EXAMPLES OF ELLIPSIS SUPPLIED.

1. Of the ARTICLE:--"A man and [_a_] woman."--"The day, [_the_] month, and
[_the_] year."--"She gave me an apple and [_a_] pear, for a fig and [_an_]
orange."--_Jaudon's Gram._, p. 170.

2. Of the NOUN:--"The common [_law_] and the statute law."--"The twelve
[_apostles_]."--"The same [_man_] is he."--"One [_book_] of my books."--"A
dozen [_bottles_] of wine."--"Conscience, I say; not thine own
[_conscience_], but [_the conscience_] of the other."--_1 Cor._, x, 29.
"Every moment s