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this chapter he also treats of the accent, and correspondence of 

 Vawels in spelling, of their commutabiUty and elision. The fourth 

 treats of the parts of speech, and first of the Article. In the num- 

 ber of the Parts of Speech he agrees with O'Molloy and Lluyd, 

 With respect to the articles he follows the last mentioned Gram- 

 marians, and asserts that there are several kinds of Articles ; (^by 

 which word, I am of opinion, he must mean Particles) some 

 he calls nominala, and others verbal, adverbial, pronominal and 

 interrogative. — He even asserts the impersonal verb ){ or <tf 

 (i. e. it is) to be an article. — Those which he calls nominals, with 

 the exception of the definite article <tti (the), are substantives, verbs 

 or interjections. The verbal are adverbs. The adverbial are pre- 

 positions placed before nouns. The pronominal are demonstra- 

 tive or indefinite pronouns ; and the interrogative are either pro- 

 nouns or adverbs. — The fifth treats of the form and figure of nouns, 

 which would be well treated if the adjective were distinguished 

 from the substantive. Much more could be said on this subject, 

 which would form an invaluable and curious display of the me- 

 chanism of our derivative words, and the analogies by which they are 

 formed on the primitives. The sixth treats of the Noun, its gen- 

 der, number and case. He says Nouns are of two kinds, viz. 

 Substantive and Adjective. The Substantive of two kinds, viz. 

 common and proper. The Genders two — masculine aud feminine. 

 The numbers two — singular and plural. The cases six, as in the 

 Latin, according to the moderns, and four, according to the ancients. 

 It becomes necessary here to point out some of Mac Curtin's 

 errors in his Rules for distinguishing the Genders of Nouns. — In 

 the fourth Rule he says — " Diminishing derivatives which end in 

 ^ti, e-tt-M, "^-M or e-tt are of the masculine gender." Those in ^ti are 

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