13 Dec. 1815

Chrestom. or Language

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'.4 Noun Adjective

Ch.4 Of Noun Adjectives

Case, gender, number - of none of these affections of the noun substantive has the noun adjective any need. In all these particulars its import is determined, determined with perfect clearness by the connexion it has with the noun-substantive, by the connexion which the sign of a quality has with the sign of the subject in which it is meant to be represented as inhering.

In this particular, again, the English may be seen presenting a model of perfection. In the English the adjective is everywhere altogether undeclinable.

The substantive has but two declensions two signs of modification, - the sign of the genitive case in the singular number, and the sign of the plural number in all cases. In the adjective even these modifications are unnecessary: accordingly, in the English, they have not either of them any place.

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Ch. 6.

Of Pronouns

Pronouns are either substantive or adjective.

The pronoun substantive as the name imports, is but a noun substantive of a particular kind.

The pronoun adjective as the name imports is but a noun adjective of a particular kind.