PARTS OF SPEECH.-From the Suggestions of Horne Tooke.

'This arrangement is systematic or logical, i.e. it gives the Parts of Speech according to their relations with each other.' 'In one sense of the word it is natural.'-Latham, English Language, Vol. I. xlvii.

ANALYSIS

OF THE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

CHAPTER I.

DEFINITIONS AND GLOSSARY.

ABSTRACT NOUN―vide infra, Noun.

ACCENT is the stress laid on a syllable in a word.
ACCIDENCE-that department of ETYMOLOGY which treats of the
Grammatical inflexions of words.

ACCIDENT-the 'property' of an individual, not of a class.
ADJECTIVE—a word added to a noun to qualify it.

(i) DEFINITIVE-distinguishes a noun from its class.

(ii) QUALITATIVE-marks the peculiarities of a thing with reference to

its Qualities, or supposed Qualities.

(iii) QUANTITATIVE-distinguishes things according to their number.
(iv) COMMON-any ordinary epithet or adjective denoting quality.
(v) PROPER―an Adjective formed from a Proper Noun.

(vi) NUMERAL an Adjective that expresses a definite Number.

(vii) CARDINAL-shows the number of things taken.

(viii) ORDINAL-shows the order in which they are taken.

(ix) MULTIPLICATIVE-shows how many times one thing exceeds

another.

(x) PRONOMINAL—is one that may either accompany a noun or represent it.

(xi) PARTICIPIAL-a participle used as an Adjective, i.e. without the notion of Time.

ADVERB a word joined to a verb or any Attributive, to denote some modification, degree, or circumstance of the expressed Attribute.

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ANTECEDENT—a word going before, to which a Relative refers.
ART-an applied Science.

ARTICLE-a Definitive Adjective-(i) used generally with nouns to limit their signification. (ii) from Articulus, a joint, a small part or portion of the entire limb,' hence, metaphorically, a small, but critical part of the entire signification.

AUGMENTATIVE—a word formed by the addition of a suffix, which has the effect of increasing or intensifying the signification. BARBARISM—a 'slang term,' an offence against the vocabulary of a language.

CASE*.

*—a grammatical form expressive of the relation of nouns and pronouns to other words-expressive of dependent relation.

NOMINATIVE-or name case,' denotes the source of the action.
GENITIVE-possessive relation.

DATIVE-receptive or locative relation.

ACCUSATIVE-objective relation.

ABLATIVE-instrumental, modal or causal relation.

CATEGORICAL-absolute, without a condition.

COMMON NOUN-vide Noun.

COMPARISON of Adjectives and Adverbs means a variation in them to express quality in different degrees.

(i) POSITIVE-is an Adjective in its simple state.

(ii) COMPARATIVE—An Adjective is said to be in the Comparative degree when on comparing two objects or classes it expresses relatively an increase or diminution of the quality.

(iii) SUPERLATIVE—An Adjective is said to be in the Superlative degree, when on comparing more than two objects or classes it expresses the limit of the increase or diminution of the quality.

COMPOSITION the process of word formation by adding whole words to whole words.

COMPOUND-a word formed by adding words, each possessing a distinct signification.

—a combination of two or more words, each retaining its own signification.

* See note A, p. 8.