 English, nine sorts of words, or, as they are commonly called, PARTS OF SPEECH ; namely, the ARTICLE, the SUBSTANTIVE or NOUN, the ADJECTIVE, the PRONOUN, the VERB, the ADVERB, the PREPOSITION, the CONJUNCTION, and the INTERJECTION.  Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar - Page 13by Lindley Murray - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1852 - 272 pages
...derivation. There are, in English, nine sorts of words, or, as they are commonly called, PARTS op SPEECH ; namely, the ARTICLE, the SUBSTANTIVE Or NOUN, the...INTERJECTION. 1. An Article is a word prefixed to substantives, to point them out, and to snow how far their signification extends : as, a garden, an... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1852 - 430 pages
...or, as they are commonly called, parts of speech, namely, the article ; the noun, or substantive ; the adjective ; the pronoun ; the verb ; the adverb...preposition ; the conjunction ; and the interjection. 2. An article is a word prefixed to nouns to point them out, and to show how far their signification... | |
 | Saint Ange Siméon - 1853 - 484 pages
...— There are, in the French language, nine kinds of words or parts of speech — the article, the noun, the adjective, the pronoun, the verb, the adverb,...preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection. FIRST.— THE ARTICLE. 2. THE ARTICLE is a word placed before nouns to indicate their determined sense,... | |
 | Franz Ahn - 1854 - 120 pages
...composed of nine kinds of words, called the parts of speech. They are : the Article, the Substantive, the Adjective, the Pronoun, the Verb, the Adverb,...Preposition, the Conjunction and the Interjection. § 2. There are in German two numbers: the Singular and the Plural ; three genders : the masculine,... | |
 | Franz Ahn - 1854 - 116 pages
...composed of nine kinds of words, called the parts of speech. They are : the Article, the Substantive, the Adjective, the Pronoun, the Verb, the Adverb,...Preposition, the Conjunction and the Interjection. § 2. There are in German two numbers: the Singular and the Plural ; three genders : the masculine,... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1856 - 200 pages
...written. Words are divided into eight classes, called Parts of Speech. The Parts of Speech are, the Noun, the Adjective, the Pronoun, the Verb, the Adverb,...Preposition, the Conjunction, and the Interjection. A noun is the name of au object ; as, peach, Frank, Salem. An adjective.is a word used to limit or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 344 pages
...received their names from the Romans, called " Farts of Speech : " they consist of the NOUN SUBSTANTIVE, the ADJECTIVE, the PRONOUN, the VERB, the ADVERB, the PREPOSITION, the CONJUNCTION, and INTERJKUTIOV. They are found appended to each word in the dictionary, and are thus abbreviated : pron... | |
 | Percival Leigh - 1858 - 534 pages
...we say that there are, in •English, as many sorts of words as a cat is said to have lives, nine ; namely, the Article, the Substantive or Noun, the...Preposition, the Conjunction, and the Interjection. Comically speaking, there are a great many sorts of •words which we have not room enough to particularize... | |
 | James Hutchinson (M.A.) - English language - 1859 - 156 pages
..."Parts of Speech." 3. These Parts of Speech are known by the following names : — the Article, the Noun, the Adjective, the Pronoun, the Verb, the Adverb, the Preposition, the C6nj unction, and the Interjection. ARTICLES. 4. An Article is a word put before a noun to show the... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1860 - 276 pages
...PARTS OF SPEECH. 34. Farts of Speech Defined. 1. In English, there are eight parts of speech — the Noun, the Adjective, the Pronoun, the Verb, the Adverb,...Preposition, the Conjunction, and the Interjection. 2. A noun is the name of an object; as, fruit, Henri/, Boston. (a.) The noun (from the Latin "nomen,"... | |
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