| Robert Maunsell - Maori language - 1882 - 188 pages
...Some, perhaps, may object to our regarding a as an article, and may remind us of the definition that an article is " a word prefixed to substantives to point them out. and show how far their signification extends." This, however, is to make rules precede investigation, and... | |
| Percival Leigh - English language - 1903 - 278 pages
...above-mentioned, or lovers' words, are very often broken. But now let us go on with the parts of speech. 1. An Article is a word prefixed to substantives to point them out, and to show the extent of their meaning ; as, a dandy, an ape, the simpleton. One kind of comic article is otherwise... | |
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