r, in syllabication
--sounds of,
_Johnson, Dr. S._, his authority in Eng. orthography
_Joint nominatives_, agreem. of verb with
--whether words connected by _with_ can be used as. _Joint
antecedents_, agreem. of pron. with
--of different persons, agreem. of verb or pron. with, in ellipt.
construc.
_Jumbling_ together of the active voice and the passive, the manner of some
--_Jumbling_, senseless, Crit. N. censuring
K.
K, its name and plur.
--in general, not needed in words derived from the learned languages
--its sounds
--when silent
--Two Kays standing together
_Kind, sort_, with _these_ or _those_ improp. preceding
L.
L, its name and plur. numb.
--of the class _liquids_
--final, monosyllables ending in
--final double, to what words peculiar
--its sound; in what words silent
--where doubled
--written for a number
_Labial_ letters, how articulated
_Language_, the primitive sense of the term, what embraced; signif. of do.,
as now used
--in opposition to some grammarians, BROWN confines the term to speech
and writing
--loose explanations of the word by certain slack thinkers; WEBST.
notion of
--SHERID. idea of; KIRKH. wild and contradictory teachings concerning
--_Language_, PROPRIETY of, in what consists; IMPROPRIETY of, what
embraces
--PRECISION of, in what consists; Precepts concerning its opposites
--_Language_, Eng., (see _English Language_)
--_Languages_, uniform SERIES OF GRAMMARS for teaching the Eng., Lat.,
and Gr., that of DR. BULL., noticed
_Lay, pay_, and _say_, how written in the pret. and the perf. part.
_Leading principles_ in the construc. of sentences, in what embraced in the
Grammar
_Least parts_ of language, as written, as spoken, &c., what constituents so
called
_Legal_ phraseology, in contrast with that of common life
_Less_, improper use of, for _fewer_, ("_No_ LESS _than three
dictionaries_," DR. WEBST.)
_Lest_, use of, for THAT, without due regard to its import, ("_I feared_
LEST," &c.)
--derivation of, from Sax.
_Let_, verb, its construc, with an infin. following
LETTERS, in the Eng. alphabet, numb. of, and numb. of sounds which they
represent
--a knowledge of, in what consists
--infinite variety in, yet the letters always THE SAME
--different sorts of types, or styles of, used in Eng.
--names of, in E
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