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and all the multiples of ten prefixed to a noun, have the noun in the 

 singular number, as "0<t '^Hf two men, -ott ^€-<if\ "oettg" (observe, the 

 letter ^ is not aspirated in either of these examples), " twelve 

 naeii, y1^^ efltii) twenty trees, tii)l^ WiX^cat a thousand horse- 

 men. But if an adjective follows the noun, the adjective must 

 be in the plural number, as "Ott d^ixr^ wo^<x." — These are glar- 

 ing errors— for in the first case, the noun is in the genitive plural 

 indefinite, being ^' Twenty of trees, a thousand of horsemen ;" — 

 and in the last the grammarian was not aware, that plurality does 

 not commence in our noun, nor consequently in the adjective at- 

 tendant on that noun, when the numeral is prefixed, until it goes as 

 far as the number three. The example given by him, viz. td^ 

 c:|t<ti) ttiO|i<t, should be t)^ C|i<tt) Tti5|t. Moreover, he does not aspi- 

 rate the c, which "Ott requires, when the initial of the noun is as- 

 pirable, a plural adjective is placed in concord with a noun in 

 the singular number. 



The preceding remarks made on the comparison of adjectives 

 are applicable to the 10th Rule. — The Syntax of the Pronoun is 

 properly treated, except Rule 9, on the demonstrative {o. This 

 should, after the noun or adjective to which it has a reference, be 

 preserved without variation as an indeclinable pronoun, and not 

 changed into {<t, {) or f e ; for these are the forms of the in- 

 crease of nouns, adjectiveis, pronouns and verbs, and should not be 

 confounded with the demonstrative {0. The verbs are properly 

 treated, though there is room for further illustration ; as is also the 

 remainder of Syntax. He has omitted Prosody. 



My task is now completed, and on the whole I may pronounce 

 this the most erroneous Irish grammar ever compiled. I have been 

 particularly attentive to point out the deficiencies and errors of 

 this work, as being the last production of the kind (^except a few 



