ON THE GRAMMATICAL POSITION OF THE WORDS _mine_ AND _thine_. 394-407. Equivalent to _meus_ and _tuus_, rather than possessive cases 284-290 CHAPTER XXXVIII. ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE WEAK PRÆTERITE. 408. Grimm's view 291 409, 410. Remarks of Dr. Trithen 291-293 PART V. SYNTAX. CHAPTER I. ON SYNTAX IN GENERAL. 411, 412. Syntax 294 413. Personification 294 414. Ellipsis 295 415. Pleonasm 295 416. Zeugma 295 417. _Pros to semainomenon_ 296 418. Apposition 296 419. Collectiveness 297 420. Reduction 297 421. Determination of part of speech 298 422-424. Convertibility 298, 299 425. _The Blacks of Africa_ 299 426. _None of your ifs_ 300 427. Convertible words numerous in English 300 CHAPTER II. SYNTAX OF SUBSTANTIVES. 428. _Rundell and Bridge's_ 301 429. _Right and left_ 301 CHAPTER III. SYNTAX OF ADJECTIVES. 430. Pleonasm 302 431. Collocation 302 432. Government 302 433. _More wise_, _wiser_ 303 434. _The _better_ of the two_ 304 435. Syntax of adjectives simple 304 CHAPTER IV. SYNTAX OF PRONOUNS. 436. Pleonasm 305 437. _Father's_, not _father his_ 305 438. Pleonasm and ellipses allied 306 CHAPTER V. THE TRUE PERSONAL PRONOUNS. 439. _Pronomen reverentiæ_ 307 440. _Dativus ethicus_ 307 441. Reflected pronoun 307 442. Reflected neuters 308 443. Equivocal reflective 308 CHAPTER VI. ON THE SYNTAX OF THE DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS, AND THE PRONOUNS OF THE THIRD PERSON. 444, 445. _His_ and _its_ 310, 311 CHAPTER VII. ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORD _self_. 446, 447. _Myself_, _himself_, &c. 312, 313 CHAPTER VIII. ON THE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS. 448-451. _My_ and _mine_ 314-316 CHAPTER IX. THE RELATIVE PRONOUNS. 452-456. Their concord 317, 318 457. Ellipsis 318 458. Equivocal antecedent 319 CHAPTER X. ON THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN. 459, 460. Direct and oblique questions 320 CHAPTER XI. THE RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS. 461, 462. Their construction 322, 323 CHAPTER XII.