, or another adverb_.

ANAL'YSIS, Gr. _analusis_, from _ana_ and _luein_, to unloose, to resolve
into its elements: _the separation of a sentence into its constituent
elements_.

ANTECE'DENT, Lat. _antecedens_, pres. part. of _antecedere_, to go before:
_the noun or pronoun represented by a relative pronoun_.

APPOSI'TION, Lat. _appositio_, from _ad_, to, and _ponere_, to place
beside: _the state of two nouns put in the same case without a connecting
word between them_.

AR'TICLE, Lat. _articulus_, a little joint: _one of the three words_, a,
an, _or_ the.

AUXIL'IARY, Lat. _auxiliaris_, from _auxilium_, help, aid: _a verb used to
assist in conjugating other verbs_.

CASE, Lat. _casus_, from _cadere_, to fall, to happen: _a grammatical form
denoting the relation of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the
sentence_.

CLAUSE, Lat. _claudere_, _clausum_, to shut: _a dependent proposition
introduced by a connective_.

COMPAR'ISON, Lat. _comparatio_, from _comparare_, to liken to: _a variation
in the form of an adjective or adverb to express degrees of quantity or
quality_.

COM'PLEMENT, Lat. _complementum_, from _con_ and _plere_, to fill fully:
_the word or words required to complete the predication of a transitive
verb_.

COM'PLEX (sentence), Lat. _complexus_, from _con_ and _plectere_, to twist
around: _a sentence consisting of one independent proposition and one or
more clauses_.

COM'POUND (sentence), Lat. _componere_ (= _con_ and _ponere_), to put
together: _a sentence consisting of two or more independent propositions_.

CONJUGA'TION, Lat. _conjugatio_, from _con_ and _jugare_, to join together:
_the systematic arrangement of a verb according to its various grammatical
forms_.

CONJUNCTION, Lat. _conjunctio_, from _con_ and _jungere_, to join together:
_a word used to connect sentences or the elements of sentences_.

DECLEN'SION, Lat. _declinatio_, from _declinare_, to lean or incline: _the
process of giving in regular order the cases and numbers of a noun or
pronoun_.

ELLIP'SIS, Gr. _elleipsis_, a leaving or defect: _the omission of a word or
words necessary to complete the grammatical structure of the sentence_.

ETYMOL'OGY, Gr. _etumologia_, from _etumon_, the true literal sense of a
word, and _logos_, a discourse: _that division of grammar which treats of
the classification and grammatical forms of words_.

FEM'ININE (gender), Lat. _femininus_, from _femina_, woman: _the gender of
a no