| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...the noun and verb, are conceSed under an imperfect or indigested wordCHAPTER II. Of the ARTICLES. AN Article is a word prefixed to substantives, to point...out, and to show how far their signification extends \ as, a garden, an eagle, the woman. In English, there are but two articles, a and the: a becomes an... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...the ADJECTIVE, the VERB, the ADVERB, the PREPOSITION, the CONJUNCTION, and the INTERJECTION. 1. An Article is a word prefixed to substantives, to point them out, and to show how far their t ignification extends : as, a garden, an eagle, the woman. 2. A Substantive or noun is the name of... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...which the i)oun and yerb, iire, concealed under an imperfect or indigested word.. Of the H. Article isa word prefixed to substantives, to point them out , and to show how &r their signification extends-; as, a garden, an eagle, the woman. In English, there are but two articles,... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 114 pages
...express the passions or emotions of the speaker ; as, " O virtue ! how amiable 'thou art I" ARTICLE. Ah article is a -word prefixed to substantives, to point...out, and to show how far their signification extends ; as, a garden, an eagle, the woman. In English there are but two articles, a and the ; a becomes an... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...ADJECTIVE, the PRONOUN, the VERB, the ADVERB, the "PREPOSITION, the CONJUNCTION, and the INTERJECTION. 1. An Article is a word prefixed to substantives, to point them out, and to show how far their signifieation extends ; as, a garden, an eagle, the woman. 2. A Substantive or Noun is the name of... | |
| John Dougall - 1810 - 554 pages
...been omitted, without injuring the construction of the sentence, or destroying the sense. ARTICLE. THE ARTICLE is a word prefixed to substantives, to...out, and to show how far their signification extends. In English there are but two articles, a, and the : a beL 2 ccmt-s comes an before a vowel, y and w... | |
| Jean Baptiste Perrin - 1810 - 320 pages
...ADVERB, the PARTICIPLE, the PREPOSITION, thé CONJUNCTION, and the INTERJECTION. I. The ARTICLE is a ward prefixed to substantives to point them out, and to show how far their signification extends ; as, Me study of history is useful and agreeable; I't'tude. de l'histuire tst utile et agiénblt'... | |
| John Dougall - 1810 - 734 pages
...called, Parts of Speech. 1 The ARTICLE; prefixed to substantives, when they are common names of things, to point them out, and to show how far their signification extends. 2 The SUBSTANTIVE, or NOON; being the name of any' thing conceived to subsist, or of which we have... | |
| John Millard - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1813 - 704 pages
.... i There are, in English, nine sorts of words, or, as they are commonly called parts of speech. 1. The ARTICLE is a word prefixed to substantives to point them out, and to show how Car their signification extends. There are but two articles, a and the; a becomes an before a vowel,... | |
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