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sm, use of _Time_, the order and fitness of, to be observed in constructions expressing it --nouns of, with adv. WHEN, as a special relative, following _Time, measure_, or _weight_, part made possessive of the whole, ("_An_ HOUR'S _time_") --noun of, not poss., immediately before an other, ("_A_ POUND WEIGHT,") _Time, place_, &c., the obj. case in expressions of, taken after the fashion of an adv. _Time, measure, distance_, or _value_, nouns of, their peculiarity of construc.; the parsing of _Time_, obj. noun of, qualifying a subsequent adj., ("A _child_ OF _ten years_ OLD,") _Four times, five times_, &c., how to be reckoned. TIMES, before an other noun, _by way of_ MULTIPLICATION, the nature and construc. of, discussed; decision. _Times_, in what construc. may be called the objective of _repetition_, or of _time repeated_. _Time_ in pronunciation, or _quantity_ _Titles_, of books, are printed in capitals --of office, &c., begin with do. --merely mentioned as such, are without art. --_Name and_ TITLE, (see _Proper Names_.) _Side-titles_, use of _dash_ in application to _Tmesis_, explained _To_, as governing infin. mood --do., variously explained by grammarians --is a sign of inf., but not a part of it --what BROWN claims for his RULE respecting the _infin. as gov. by the prep._ TO, &c.; he shows that the doctrine originated not with himself --TO _and the verb_, what FISHER (anno 1800) taught respecting; what, LOWTH, and what, absurdly, MURR., his copyist --_To_, as governing infin., traced from the Sax. to the Eng. of WICKL., --_To_, before infin., evasive teachings of the later grammarians concerning its class and construc. --do., how considered by most Eng. grammarians --do., how proved to be a prep. --do., preceded by _for_, anc. --after _what verbs_, omitted, --whether to be _repeated_ before infinitives in the same construe. --sometimes required, and sometimes excluded, after _than_ or _as_ --whether it may be _separated_ from its verb by an adv.; is placed more elegantly AFTER _an adv._, ("PROPERLY TO _respect_,") --in what cases has no prop, antec. term of relat. --_To_ suppressed and _be_ inserted after MAKE, whether correctly --_To_, prep, or adv., from Anglo-Sax. --_To_, as prefix to noun, (_to-day, to
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