nd superlatives, A. MURR.
_Interrogative pronouns_, defined
--what they severally demand
--their use and construc.
--in what differ from relatives
--are always of the third pers.
--declined
--their place in a sentence
--their construc. of cases, to what similar
_Interrogative_ sentences, agreem. of verbs in
INTERJECTIONS, Etymol. of
--_Interjection_, defined
--derivation and signif. of the term; LOWTH'S error in describing the
_interjections_
--_Interjections_, numb. of, in common use
--List of
--_Interjections_, the frequent use of, an indication of
thoughtlessness; expressiveness of some _interjections_ in earnest
utterance, &c.
--should be discriminatively used
--chief characteristics of; referred to the class of _adverbs_ by the
Gr. grammarians
--significant words uttered as, ("_Out! out!_")
--appar. taken substantively
--Synt. of
--absolute construc. of
--have no construc. with cases, as in Lat. and Gr.
--appar., sometimes connected to other words by a prep., or by _that_
--place of
--punct. of
--ellips. of, shown
--derivation of
--frequency of, in poet. lang.
_Inversion_ of terms, sometimes of advantage, in respect to strength and
vivacity of expression.
_Irony_, figure explained
_Is being_, with a perf. part., or the subject of the UNCO-PASSIVE _form of
verbs_, canvassed
_Ise_ or _ize_, which of these terminations to be taken in forming
derivatives under Deriv. of Verbs
_Ish_, termination, whether it may be accounted a degree of comparison
_It_. its chief use
--declined
--to what creatures may be applied
--put for the distance, ("_How far do you call_ IT?" &c., PRIESTL.,)
--without definite reference to an anteced.
--as explet., and referring to something expressed afterwards; faulty
omission of, before verb, in such construc.
--had formerly no variation of cases
--its poss. form ITS, for _of it_, of recent origin, and not found in
the text of the common Bible
--wrongly excluded by some from the list of pers. pronouns:
--its derivation from Sax., traced
_Italic letters, Italics_, some account of
--for what purpose used
--how denoted in preparing manuscripts
J.
J, its name and plur. numb.
--why never doubled
--why never ends a word in Eng.
--impropriety of dividing on the lette
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