Founding Grammars (44 page)

Every-Day English
(White, R.)

everyone

“Excelsior” (Longfellow)

experience

fables

slang

false syntax

father/pater

Federalists

female

Female Monitorial School

feminized words

finalize

Fogarty, Mignon

Follett, Wilson

form (level of scholarly achievement)

Fourier, Charles

Fourierism

Fowle, William Bentley

Common School Grammar

The Teacher's Institute

The True English Grammar

Fowler, William

Franklin, Benjamin

Franklin Institute

free blacks

Freedom's Journal

Freeman's Journal

French orthography

from

different than, different from

frontier idiom

future tense

The Galaxy

Garner, Bryan

gender.
See also
women

genitive case

gentleman, gents

Germanic languages

Gerry, Elbridge

Gilded Age

Godey, Louis

Godey's Lady's Book

Good English, or Popular Errors in Language
(Gould)

Goodrich, Chauncey

Gospel of Luke

Gould, Edward S.

Gove, Philip B.

grammar

definition of

purpose of

rules

grammar books

memorization of

popularity of

style of

Grammatical Institute of the English Language
(Webster, Noah)

Part I

Part II

Part III

grammatical resolution

Grantism

Greek language

Greeley, Horace

Green, Duff

Greene, Lynn M.

Greenleaf, James

Grimm, Jacob

Grimm's Law

Hale, Sarah Josepha

Hall, Fitzedward

Hamilton, Alexander

Hanks, Nancy

Harper's

Harris, Sydney

Harrison, William Henry

Hartford Convention

Harvard

Harvey, Thomas

hat in ring

A Hazard of New Fortunes
(Howells)

Higher Lessons in English
(Reed, Alonzo, and Kellogg)

Home, Henry

Hooker, Thomas

hopefully

Horne Tooke, John

criticism of

theories of

Winged Words, or The Diversions of Purley

Howells, William Dean

hypercorrection

I

I
instead of
me
after preposition

I seen, I done

It is I

It is I
compared to
It is me

between you and I

you and me, you and I

imperative mood

The Importance of Being Earnest
(Wilde)

indicative mood

Indo-European languages

The Institutes of English Grammar
(Brown)

International Phonetic Alphabet

Internet.
See also
blog posts

Irish immigrants

irregardless

It is I

It is me
compared to

use of

It is me

I am it
compared to

It is I
compared to

It's me

use of

Jackson, Andrew

Jackson, Rachel

Jay, John

Jefferson, Thomas

jeopardize

Johnson, Samuel

Jones, William

joy riding

Kellogg, Brainerd

Kennedy, John F.

The Kentucky Preceptor

King James Bible

Kirkham, Samuel

The Ladies' Home Journal

lady

Language and the Study of Language
(Whitney, W.)

languages.
See also specific languages

evolution of

relationships

Latin

English language compared to

English-style plurals with

Greek, Sanskrit and

study of

use of

Learned, Leila Sprague

lend, loan

Lessons in Elocution
(Scott)

Lewis, John

lexicography

life

Life
magazine

like

as
and

embedded clauses introduced by

Lincoln, Abraham

Lincoln, Thomas

Lindley, Mary

Lindley, Thomas

linguistic science

linguistics

The Lion of the West
(Paulding)

The Living Age

loan, lend

Log Cabin

logic

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Lounsbury, Thomas

The Standard of Usage in English

low expressions

low words

Lowth, Robert

criticism of

influence of

on noun forms

on sentence parsing

A Short Introduction to English Grammar

lyceum movement

Lyceum of Natural History

MacDonald, Dwight

Madison, James

male

malefactors of great wealth

a man,
replaced with
one

Manners: Or, Happy Homes and Good Society All the Year Round
(Hale)

maps

“Mary had a little lamb” (Hale)

Mathews, William

McKinley, William

me. See also It is me

I
instead of
me
after preposition

you and me, you and I

Merriam, Charles

Merriam, George

Merriam Company

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Milton, John

Mitchill, Samuel Latham

Modern Language Notes

modifiers

them
as noun modifier

monitorial system

Monroe, James

mood

moral instruction.
See also
virtue and grammar

Morse, Jedidiah

Murray, Hannah Dobson

Murray, John

Murray, Lindley

criticism of

English Grammar

family history and career of

influence of

poor health of

The Power of Religion on the Mind

Webster, Noah, and

Murray, Robert

names

articles before

noun labels as

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee
(Crockett)

National Council of Teachers of English

National Journal

The Nation

nauseous

Neilson, William Allan

New Language Lessons
(Swinton)

New Testament

New York Herald

New York Literary Gazette

New York Times Book Review

New York Times Magazine

New York Tribune

The New Yorker

The New York Times

reviews in

A New Guide to the English Tongue
(Dilworth)

newspapers

Nicholas Nickleby
(Dickens)

The Nineteenth Century
magazine

nominative case

after
to be

after comparatives

noun

pronouns

subjects in

after verbs and prepositions

none

nonstandard forms

examples of

pronouns

study of

North American Review

noun

case

definition of

examples of proper

forms

irregular

labels as agent or object

labels as names

nominative case

noun declension

possessive

preposition-noun combinations

them
as noun modifier

objective case

direct objects in

for pronouns

use of

objects

direct

noun labels

of prepositions

obnoxious

obsolete words

O'Conner, Patricia

octavo books

offensive words and phrases

O.K.

Old English.
See
Anglo-Saxon

Old Testament

one, a man
replaced with

Origin of Species
(Darwin)

orthography

Americanization from French

The Outlook

overblown words

over-genteel or pompous words

overlong sentences

Owen, Jonathon

Oxford English Dictionary

pants

Paradise Lost
(Milton)

part from, part with

participles

past

Parton, James

parts of speech

definition of

discussion of

outlining of

passive sentences

passive verbs

past participles

pater/father

patriotism

Paulding, James K.

Payne, Daniel

penny press

Perkins, Nathan

perspicuity

p/f

Philadelphia Evening Journal

Phillips, McCandlish

Philological Society

philology

A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language
(Webster, Noah)

Pickering, Timothy

plagiarism

pleasing style

plurals

Latin with English-style

pronouns with
everybody

poems

Poore, Charles

possessives

in genitive case

noun

's

Post Dispatch

potential mood

The Power of Religion on the Mind
(Murray, L.)

A Practical Grammar of the English Language
(Harvey)

prayers

precision

prepositions

classification of

I
instead of
me
after

nominative case after verbs and

objects of

preposition-noun combinations

preposition-stranding

sentence-final

Primary School Committee

Princeton

The Principles of English Grammar
(Bullions)

private learners

progressives

pronouns

after
to be

classification of

in conjoined phrases

everybody
with plural

nominative case

nonstandard

objective case for

sexist

as substitutes

pronunciation

propriety

prosody

provincialisms

Psalter

public schools

Pullum, Geoffrey

purity

Quakers

question-and-response format

rational grammarians

Recent Exemplifications of False Philology
(Hall)

Reed, Alonzo

Reed, Andrew

regionalisms

examples of

expressions

variation

Reporter

Revolutionary War

Richmond News Leader

The Rights of All

The Riverside Shakespeare
(White, R.)

Rockefeller, John D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

The Rotarian

The Round Table

Royal American Magazine

rule of three

Rush, Benjamin

's

Salon.com

Sanskrit

science

linguistic

principles

promotion of

teaching

Science
magazine

scientist

Scott, William

Scribner's

Second Great Awakening

sentences

diagramming

overlong

parsing

passive

sentence-final preposition

structure

Seward, William

sexist pronouns

Seymour, Horatio

Shakespeare, William

shall

shall/should

shall/will

with third person

use of

shibboleths

A Short Introduction to English Grammar
(Lowth)

should/shall

Silliman, Benjamin

Simplified Spelling Board

Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett of West Tennessee
(Crockett)

Sketches of the History of Man
(Home)

slang

examples of

fables

use of

slavery

Sledd, James

Smithson, James

Smithsonian Institution

Snowden, Samuel

Soule, John B. L.

speech.
See also
parts of speech

casual

natural habits of

stage western

verbal critics on

written language compared to

spelling

misspellings

reform

simplified

split infinitives

debate on

examples of

stage western speech

The Standard of Usage in English
(Lounsbury)

statements

Steele, John

Steele, Mercy

Stevenson, Howard