nstruc.:
--their FORM in Eng.
--_Pass. verb_ BE LOVED, conjug. affirmatively.
--_Pass. verbs_, how distinguished from neuters of the same form:
--having active forms nearly equivalent to them, (_is rejoiced,
rejoices_; _am resolved, know_, &c.,):
--erroneously allowed by some to govern the obj. case in Eng.; CROMB.
in this category, cited, canon, pseudo-canons.
--_Pass. verb_, what should always take for its subj. or nom.:
--takes the same case after as before it, when both words refer to the
same thing:
--between two nominatives, with which should be made to agree,
("_Words_ ARE wind,"). See _Unco-Passive_, &c.

_Passive_ form of an active-intrans. verb followed by a prep. and its
objective, ("_He_ WAS LAUGHED AT,"). _Passive_ sense of the act. form of
the verb, ("_The books continue_ SELLING,").

_Past for future_, see _Prophecy_.

_Pauses_, term defined.
--_Pauses_, kinds of, named and explained:
--the distinctive, duration of:
--after what manner should be formed:
--forced, unintentional, their effect:
--emphatic or rhetorical, applicat. and office of:
--harmonic, kinds of; these, essential to verse.
--_Pauses_, abrupt, punct.:
--emphatic, do.

_Pedantic_ and sense-dimming style of charlatans &c., as offending against
purity.

_Pentameter_ line, _iambic_, examples of:
--is the regular Eng. HEROIC; its quality and adaptation:
--embraces the _elegiac stanza_:
--_trochaic_, example of, said by MURR. _et al_. to be very uncommon;
was unknown to DR. JOH. and other old prosodists:
--the two examples of. in sundry grammars, whence came; a couplet of
these scanned absurdly by HIL.; HART mistakes the metre of do.:
--_dactylic_, example of, ("_Salutation to America_,").

_Perfect_, adj., whether admits of comparison; why its comparis. by adverbs
not wholly inadmissible.

_Perfect definition_, what.

_Perfect participle_, or _second part._, defined:
--its form:
--how has been variously called:
--its character and name as distinguished from the imperf. part:
--why sometimes called the _passive part_.; why this name liable to
objection:
--how may be distinguished from the preterit of the same form:
--should not be made to govern an objective term. ("_The characters_
MADE USE OF," MURR.,):
--not to be used for the pret., nor confounded with the pres.: