Analytical and Practical Grammar
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ISBN13: 9780217776202
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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: PART II. ETYMOLOG-Y. 79. Etymology treats of the different sorts of words, their various modifications, and their derivations. WOKDS. 80. A. Word is an articulate sound used by common consent as the sign of an idea. 81. A few words consist of vocal or vowel sounds only; as, /, all, awe, oh, owe, eye, etc. 82.-1. Words in respect of their Formation, are either Primitive or Derivative, Simple or Compound. 83. A Primitive word is one that is not derived from any other word in the language; as, lay, just, father. 84. A Derivative word is one that is derived from some other word; as, boyish, justice, fatherly. Derivatives are usually formed either by prefixing or affixing syllables to simple words. 85. A Simple word is one that is not combined with any other word; as, man, house, city. 86. A Compound word is one that is made up of two or more simple words; as, manhood, horseman. 87.r-2. Words, in respect of Form, are either inflected or uninflected. 88. An Inflected word is one which undergoes certain changes of form or termination, to express the different relations of gender, number, person, case; degree; voice, mood, tense; visually termed in Grammar AcciDents; as, man, men; wise, wiser j love, loves, loved, etc. 89. In the changes which they undergo, nouns and pronouns are sometimes said to be declined, verbs, to be conjugated, adjectives and adverbs, compared (140, 209,473, 536.) 90. An uninflected word is one which undergoes no change of form; as, and, beside, some, perhaps. 91. 3. In respect of signification and use, words are divided into different classes, called Parts of Speech. 92. The principle according to which words are classified is their use, or the part they perform in the expression of thought. Words which are names ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217776202 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217776205 |
| Weight | 0.87 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 In |
| List Price | $19.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 266 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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