SECOND GENERAL DIVISION—WORDS.I. Classes—1. Substantives—(a) Nouns
(b) Pronouns
2. Attribu¬
tives—(a) Adjectives
(b) Adverbs
(c) Attributive verbs. 3. Relation
words-(a) Propositions
(b) Conjunctions
(c) Pure or Copulative
verbs. 4. Feeling words—interjections. 5. Form words—Expletives.II. Nouns—1. Definition
2. Classes—(a) Proper
(b) Common or
Class
(c) Collective
(d) Substance or Mass
(e) Abstract. 3. Gram¬
matical properties—(a) Number—belongs to what classes of nouns,
in what sense substance, proper and...
(b) Case—What it denotes, number and names, when each should be
used
(c) Gender—Number and names, what each denotes
ways of
making the feminine from the masculine
(d) Person.Ill Pronouns—1, Definition
2. Conqiarison and contrast with
nouns
3. Classes—(a) Personal
(b) Relative or conjunctive
(c) In¬
terrogative
4. Properties
5. Syntax.IV. Adjectives—1. Definition
2. Classes—(a) Predicate
(b) Modi¬
fying—(a) Limiting
(b) Descriptive
3. Uses in the sentence
4.
Modifiers
5. Errors in use of
6. Comparison.V. Adverbs—1. Definition
2. Comparison and contrast with ad¬
jectives
3. Ideas expressed by—time, manner, cause, place, degree, fre¬
quency, agency, means, exclusion, negation, modality, etc.
4. Modi¬
fiers
5. Uses
6. Comparison.VI. Verbs—1.Definition
2. Classes—(a) According to meaning
(b) According to method of forming past tense and perfect participle
3. Properties —voice, person and number, tense, mood
4. Modifiers
5. Syntax.VII. Prepositions and Conjunctions.VIII. Feeling words and expletives—nature and uses.Note—Grammar is a language subject. It deals, w...
as an art it seeks to give skill in inter¬
preting and in constructing sentences. This two-fold nature and end of
the subject ...
the second must be sought through intelligent practice in the
analysis of sentences, and through unceasing endeavor to express his
own though...