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An Outline of English Speech-craft

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Absolute case, 32, 47 Accent, 3 Adjective, 10, 12 Adverbs, 26, 48 Aorist (time), 28 Article, 6, 10 Attraction, 52 Be-, 52 Big things, 6 Breathings, 1, 44 — free, 1 — hard, 2, 44 Breath-pennings, 1, 2 Can, 27 Case, 30 — absolute, 32 — words, 31 Colon, 73 Comma, 73 Conjugation, 26 Conjunction, 35 Defective (time-words), 55 -dom, 57, 58 -ed, 19, 83 -el, -l, 18 -en, 16, 45, 59, 84 -ening, 59 -er, 59, 84 -et, 84 Expansion, 60 For-, 60 Fore-, 61 Goodness of a speech, 86 Hinge and hank time-takings, 35 -hood, 62 Imperative mood, 31, 63 Impersonal time-words, 63 Inceptive time-words, 64 Indicative mood, 30 Infinitive mood, 16, 64 -ing, 17, 84 -ism, 65 Iterative time-words, 29, 66 Kindred, 5 Link words, 35 -m, -om, -um, 66, 67, 84 Mark-words (thing), 4 Mark time-words, 45 May, 27 Mis-, 16 Miswording, 10 Mood, 30 Must, 27 Nominative case, 31 -ock, 16, 83 -om, -um, -m, 66, 67, 84 -op, -p, 70, 83 Optative mood, 31, 70 Paraphrase, 71 Participles (Latin), 40 Period, 72 Person, 11, 26, 27 Personal time-word, 73 Pitches, 73 Potential, 31 Preposition (case-word), 31 Proposition, 35 Qualities, 12 -r, -er, 16, 59 Seem, 41, 78 Sex, 5 -sh, 77 Shall, 77 -ship, 77 Small things, 5 -some, 78 Sound-softness, 38, 88 Speech, goodness of, 86 — strain, 3 — trimming, 36, 80 — wording, 35, 40-44 Stops, 72 Suchness, 12 — pitches of, 13 Syntax, 35, 80 Tale, 6, 10, 28 Thing mark-words, 4 — names, 4 — sundrinesses, 4 Thought-wording, 35 Time, 28 Time-giving, 15 Time-taking, 14, 25 — historic, 18, 30 — long, 27 — short, single, and stringly, 29 — transitive, 15 Time-words, 19 — strong, 20 — weak, 19, 20, 26 Twin, 39 Under sundrinesses of time-takings, 25 Word-endings, powers of, 83 Wordiness, 44 Word-sameness, 38 Word-strain, 3

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