A few small words, called enclitics, generally throw their accent, as an acute, on the last syllable of the preceding word. § 4.

No. 51; accent from "enclitic," § 3.

fem., § 29; cannot take the enclitic's accent (§ 3) like No. 7, as another acute immediately precedes.

The pronominal compounds; herein, therein, wherein, &c.; in which the former term is a substitute, and virtually governed by the enclitic particle.

A simple instance is the growing loss of our enclitics.

The negative not was enclitic after the verb, and this gave us our shan't, don't, won't, &c. Dr. Johnson held the not to be too important a qualification to leave unaccented.

Again, where prepositions made a pronoun enclitic, the old accent is perishing.