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<
br />
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
Stiles, Ezra
Stoker, Bram
Story, Joseph
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
structural linguists
Strunk, William, Jr.
style guides
subjects
of missing verb in comparisons
in nominative case
subjunctive mood
substandard label
substantive. See also noun
substitutes
Sun newspaper
Sunday Star
Swinton, William
synonyms
A Synopsis of Words in Twenty Languages (Webster, Noah)
syntax
definition of
false
issues
Taft, William
“tall talk,” western
The Teacher’s Institute (Fowle)
The Telegraph
tense
future
verbs
than
different than, different from
then and
thee
them, as noun modifier
then, than
they
with everybody
with singular antecedent
thing
thou
thee and
use of
to
due to
verb separated from
to whom
to be
in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit
nominativ
e case after
pronouns after
unless you be, unless you are
Toronto Globe and Mail
The Travels of Cyrus
Treaty of Paris
Trinity Lane School
trousers
The True English Grammar (Fowle)
Truss, Lynne
Twain, Mark
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
United States Telegraph
unless you be, unless you are
Usage Panel
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
verbal critics
The Verbalist (Ayres)
verbs
Anglo-Saxon
classification of
comparisons and subject of missing
conjugation
definition of
mood
new
nominative case after prepositions and
passive
to separated from
tense
unfamiliar forms
villain
virtue and grammar
vocative case
voting rights
Walker, David
Walker, Edward
War of 1812
was, with you
Washington, George
The Washington Post
Webster, John
Webster, Noah. See also Grammatical Institute of the English Language
American Dictionary of the English Language
American Spelling Book
The American Minerva
The American Spelling Book
A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases
A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language
Connecticut school of
criticism of
Dissertations
Elements of Useful Knowledge
English language lectures of
essays by
family history and career of
influence of
Murray, L., and
A Philosophical and Practical Grammar
spelling reform and
Synopsis
theories of
Webster, Noah (father)
Webster, Rebecca
Webster, William
Webster’s Bible, Common Version
Webster’s Second
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary
Western Recorder
western “tall talk”
Westminster Assembly’s “Shorter Catechism”
which, compared to whose
White, E. B.
White, John
White, Richard Grant
criticism of
Every-Day English
in The Galaxy
The Riverside Shakespeare
theories of
Words and Their Uses
Whitney, Josiah
Whitney, William Dwight
Essentials of English Grammar
review by
who
with nonhumans
use of
Who did she or you speak to?
whom compared to
whom
among with
incorrect use of
who compared to
to whom
whose
with nonhumans
which compared to
Wilberforce, William
Wilde, Oscar
will
will/shall
will/would
Williams, Ralph Olmsted
Wills, Garry
Wilson, Woodrow
Winged Words, or The Diversions of Purley (Horne Tooke)
Winning of the West (Roosevelt)
Woe Is I (O’Conner)
Wolcott, Oliver
women, education of. See also female; lady
Women’s Rights Convention
Worcester, Joseph
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