OF THE

ENGLISH SENTENCE

AND

INTRODUCTION TO COMPOSITION

BY

JONATHAN RIGdon, A. B.,

AUTHOR OF "OUTLINES IN PSYCHOLOGY," "METHODS IN ARITHMETIC," "ANALYSIS OF THE
ENGLISH SENTENCE," ETC., AND PROFESSOR OF METAPHYSICS AND TEACHER OF

ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND CRITICISM IN CENTRAL NORMAL COLLEGE.

DANVILLE, IND.:

THE INDIANA PUBLISHING COMPANY.

1890.

75c.

Rigdon's Analysis of the English Sentence with Diagrams,

Rigdon's Grammar of the English Sentence and Introduction to

INDIANAPOLIS ELECTROTYPE FOUNDRY

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

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1. DEFINITIONS OF TERMS: Language, Sentence, Grammar, English Gram-

mar, Use or End of English Grammar, Grammar is a Science and an

Art, Divisions of Grammar, Syntax, Synthesis, Analysis, Elements.

2. CONSTRUCTION OF SENTENCES: Parts of a Sentence,-Subject and Pred-

icate..

3. PARTS OF SPEECH

4. COMPLEMENTS..

5. CLASSES OF SENTENCES.

6. PHRASES AND CLAUSES.

7. CLASSES OF WORDS

8. PROPERTIES OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH

9. CAPITALS.

10. PUNCTUATION

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