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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: given them the most natural and intelligihle distrihution. Some remarks on the division made hy the learned Home Tooke, are contained in the first section of the eleventh chapter of etymology. The interjection, indeed, seems scarcely worthy of heing considered as a part of artificial language or speech, heing rather a hranch ofthat natural language, which we possess in common with the hrute creation, and hy which we express the sudden emotions and passions that actuate our frame. But, as it is used in written as well as oral language, it may, in some measure, he deemed a part of speech. It is with us, a virtual sentence, in which the noun and verh are concealed under an imperfect or indigested word.?See tins Chapter, in Hie Octavo Grammar. CHAPTER II. OF THE ARTICLES. AN ART1CLE is a word prefixed to suhstantives, to point them out, and to show how far their signification extends; as, ? garden, ?n eagle, Ike woman. In English, there are hut two articles, a and the: ? hecomes an hefore a vowel, and hefore a silent ?; as, an acorn, an hour. But if the ? he sounded, the a only is to he used; as, a hand, a heart, a highway. The inattention of writers and printers to this necessary distinction, has occasioned the frequent use of an hefore ?, when is is to he pronounced; and this circumstance, more than any other has prohahly contrihuted to that indistinct utterance, or total omission, of the sound signified hy this letter, which very often occurs amongst readers and speakers. J)n horse, on hushand, an herald, an heathen, and many similar associations, are frequently to he found in works of taste and merit. To remedy thia evil, readers should he taught to omit, in all similar csea, the sound of the n, and to give the h its full pronunciation. ? or an is styled the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217206730 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217206735 |
| Weight | 0.74 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 224 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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