from elocution, what; how differs from
articulation
--_Pronunc._ of the Eng. lang., what knowledge requires; its
difficulties; whether we have any system of, worthy to be accounted a
STANDARD

_Proof-texts_, not to be perverted in the quotation, Crit. N.
--not _quoted_, but _invented_, by some, in their false illustrations
of gram.

_Proper names_ begin with capitals
--_Comm._ and _proper name_ associated, how written
--_Prop. names_, derivatives from, do.
--(_Names_ of Deity, see _Deity_.)
--_Prop. names_, application of rule concerning; distinc. between do.
and common appellatives
--of places, comparative difficulty of writing them
--modern compound, sparing use of hyphen in
--_Prop. names_, what their relative importance in lang.
--structure and signif. of; how should be written
--of plur. form, preceded by def. art.
--_Prop. name_, with def. art., acquires the import of a comm.
--_Proper_, from a comm. noun personified
--_Prop. names_ of individuals, strictly used as such, have no plur.;
_prop. name_, how made plur., and how then considered
--when they form a plur., how form it
--of persons, generally designate their sex
--_Prop. name_, in appos. with an appellative
--represented by _which_, ("_Herod_
--WHICH _is_," &c.)
--_Prop. name_ and _title_, when taken together in a plur. sense, in
what form to be written

_Property_, the relation of, how may be otherwise expressed than by the
poss. case

_Prophecy_, the past tenses substituted for the fut., in the lang. of

_Propositions_, permanent, in what tense should be expressed

_Propriety_, as a quality of style, in what consists
--its oppos., impropriety, what embraces
--Precepts aiming at offences against

_Prose_ and verse, in the composition of lang., how differ

PROSODY
--_Prosody_, of what subjects treats
--etymol. and signif. of the word
--_Prosody_, meagrely and immethodically treated in the works of many
grammarians
--undetermined usage as to what things belong to; how treated by some
of the old prosodists; account of SMETIUS'S treatise of; do.
GENUENSIS'S

_Prosthesis_, explained

_Proverbs_, their elliptical character

_Provincial_ expressions, use of, as opposed to purity

PUNCTUATION, arranged under the head of Prosody
--_Punct._, what
--principal marks of, na