English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners; With an Appendix, Containing Rules and Observations for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and Accuracy (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I hke this the least of any. See this Chapter, in the Oef-, o Grammar. CHAPTER III. Of Substantives. Section i. Of Substantives in general. A Substantive or Noun is the name of any thing that- exists, or of which we have any notion: as, London, man, virtue. Substantives are either proper or common. Proper names or, substantives, are the names appropriated to individuals ?%s, George, London, Thames. Conmion names or substantives, stand for kinds containing many sorts, or for sorts containing many individuals under them; as, animal, man, tree, ifee. When proper names have an article annexed to them, they are used as common names: as, He is the Cicero of his age; he is reading the lives of the Twelve Ciesars. Common names may als be used to signify individuals, by thp irldition of articles or pronouns: as, The boy is studious; that girl is discreet. To substantives belong gender, number, and case; and they are all of ihe third person when spoken of, and of the second when spoken to: as, Blessings attend us on every side; be grateful, children of men tliaj is, ye children of men. Section 2. Of Gender. Gender is the distinction of nouns, with regard to sex. There ure three appders, the Masculine, the Feminine; .nd the Neute The Mascinlbe Gender denotes animals of the male Wnd: as, a man, a horse, a bull. The Feminine Gender signifies r.nimals of the female ind: as, a woman, a duck, a hen. The Neuter Gender denotes objects which are neither males nor females: as. a field, a house, a garden. Some substantives, naturally neuter, are, by a figure of speech, converted into the masculine or feminine gender: as, when we say of the sun, he is sotting j and of a shi she sails well. ' Nituas nmv nlo becHvided into the followin...