They who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with
accuracy and order, are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy
andorder."
Blair,

SBY LINDLEY MURRAY.

From the latest improved London Edition

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY MYARLANE AND LONG,

NO. 308 BROADWAY.

1807.

The nature of articulation explained.

Of the nature of the letters, and of a perfect alphabet.

General observations on the sounds of the letters.

Page

9

16

CHAP. II.

CHAP. IH.

Of words in general, and the rules for spel-

Of syllables, and the rules for arranging them. 29

26

ling them.

30

CHAP. V. Of adjectives.

Sect. 1.

2.

Of the nature of adjectives, and the degrees of comparison.

Remarks on the subject of comparison.

56

58

60

2.

Of number and person.

63

3.

Of moods and participles.

63

4.

Remarks on the potential mood.

67

5.

Of the tenses.

69

6.

7.

Sept, 192

The conjugation of the auxiliary verbs to haveand to be.

The auxiliary verbs conjugated in their simple form; with ob-

servations on their peculiar nature and force.

74

Of defective verbs; and of the different ways in which verbs

are conjugated.

101

CHAP. VIID Of adverbs.

Of the various ways in which words are derived from one ano-

ther.

112

2.

A sketch of the steps, by which the English language has

risen to it present state of refinement.

116

PART III.-SYNTAX.

Of the syntax of the article.

118

144

Of the syntax of the noun

Of several nouns joined by copulatives.

125

Of nouns connected by disjunctives.

126

Of nouns of multitude.

127

Of one noun governing another in the possessive case.

the syntax of the pronoun.

Of pronouns agreeing with their antecedents.te

128

Of the relative being nominative to the verb.

132

Of the relative preceded by nominatives of different persons.

134

Of the syntax of the adjective.

185