10.Prepositions, in regard to their construction, differ from adjectives, almost exactly as active-transitive participles differ syntactically from adjectives: that is, in stead of being mere adjuncts to the words which follow them, they govern those words, and refer back to some other term; which, in the usual order of speech, stands before them.

In parsing syntactically, he would say thus: "What is a double relative, including both antecedent and relative, being equivalent to that which.

"Prepositions show the relations of words, and of the things or thoughts expressed by them," is the principle for the latter; a principle which we cannot neglect, without a shameful lameness in our interpretation;that is, when we pretend to parse syntactically. OBS.

parsing; how to be parsed syntactically how becomes an interj. used appar.

and, if he meant to parse the word syntactically, he should have added: "and agrees with its nominative thou understood; according to the rule which says, 'Every finite verb must agree with its subject or nominative, in person and number.'

He thinks that the pupil, after parsing any word syntactically, "should be requested to assign a reason for every thing contained in his statement!"Principles of E. Grammar, p. 131.

He appears, however, not to have known that a word does not agree syntactically with another that governs it; for, in his Exercises, he has given us, apparently from his own pen, the following untrue, but otherwise not very objectionable sentence: "On these occasions, the pronoun is governed by, an consequently agrees with, the preceding word.