 There are, in English, nine sorts of words, or, as they are commonly called, PARTS OF SPEECH ; namely, the ARTICLE, the SUBSTANTIVE or NOUN, the ADJECTIVE, the PRONOUN, the VERB, the ADVERB, the PREPOSITION, the CONJUNCTION, and the INTERJECTION.  Petit cours de Français - Page 1by Gabriel Surenne - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1856 - 244 pages
...divided, as explained in preceding lessons ? Name the Parts of Speech. Ans. THE NOUN, THE PRONOUN, THE ADJECTIVE, THE VERB, THE ADVERB, THE PREPOSITION, THE CONJUNCTION, and THE INTERJECTION. LESSON VII. (The sentence.) Write on the board or slate, in separate columns, the following nouns and... | |
 | William Fewsmith, Edgar Arthur Singer - English language - 1866 - 240 pages
...into nine classes, called Parts of Speech. The Parts of Speech are the NOUN, the PRONOUN, the ARTICLE, the ADJECTIVE, the VERB, the ADVERB, the PREPOSITION, the CONJUNCTION, and the INTERJECTION. DEPINITIONS OP THE PAETS OP SPEECH. A JToun is a word used as the name of any thing ; as, Washington,... | |
 | John Adam Weisse - English language - 1878 - 748 pages
...Anglo-Saxons." "Words have been divided into nine classes: the Article; the Substantive or Noun ; the Pronoun ; the Adjective ; the Verb ; the Adverb ; the Preposition ; the Conjunction ; and the Interjection. " Under these classes all the Saxon words may be arranged, although not with that scientific precision... | |
 | Marion Dexter Learned - German language - 1903 - 440 pages
...names of the parts of speech. The parts of speech in German are the noun, the article, the pronoun, the adjective, the verb, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction and the interjection. Has the noun gender in German as in English? Yes, there are three genders in German, and nouns are... | |
 | William Fewsmith, Edgar Arthur Singer - English language - 1905 - 216 pages
...into nine classes, called Parts of Speech. The Parts of Speech are the NOUN, the PRONOUN, the ARTICLE, the ADJECTIVE, the VERB, the ADVERB, the PREPOSITION, the CONJUNCTION, and the INTERJECTION. THE DEFINITIONS OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH A Pronoun is a word used in place of a noun; as, "Henry loves... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - English language - 1908 - 300 pages
...perform in the sentence. In the English language there are eight parts of speech: the Noun, the Pronoun, the Adjective, the Verb, the Adverb, the Preposition, the Conjunction, and the Interjection. 4. The relation of a word to other words in the sentence is called its Construction. 5. Grammar is... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...little book called Grammar, the statement that There are eight parts of speech, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the verb, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction and the interjection.' It was just a mass of words. We hadn't the least idea of what a part of speech meant. Stephen Leacock,... | |
 | K.R. Narayanaswamy - 2004 - 414 pages
...the vocabulary of a language is divided. English has eight parts of speech- the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the verb, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection. This book deals with all but the last. passive voice: See active voice. past participle: One of three... | |
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