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and has shewn their comparison regular and irregular. The nu- 

 merals are treated of both in their ordinal and cardinal states. 



Pronouns.— These he very properly divides into seven classes. 

 Personal, Possessive, Demonstrative, Interrogative, Indefinite 

 and Compound, which he shews to have a simple and an emphatic 

 form. This part of Grammar he has also very ably discussed, with, 

 perhaps, the exception of the orthography of words consisting of 

 the Diphthongs noticed in the first part of the Grammar. — Verb.— 

 Here but one conjugation is adopted and six moods, viz. Indicative, 

 Imperative, Subjunctive, Conditional, Consuetudinal and Infinitive. — 

 In these he varies from Mac Curtin in admitting the Infinitive, 

 substituting the Subjunctive for the Potential and rejecting the De- 

 precative. — The simple and emphatic forms of the verb are very 

 properly slvewn. — The tenses are three. Present, Past and Future. 

 Tiie auxiliary verb byd is conjugated through all its variations of 

 moods and tenses. — This is followed by examples of conjugation in 

 the active and passive voices. — Rules are given for the formation 

 of the tenses and the several Persons in each mode, with a synoptic 

 table of two regular verbs. Irregular verbs are conjugated and a 

 list given of those which are impersonal and defective, but there is 

 still room for improvement on this subject. — Adverbs. — Of these he 

 gives a long list together with adverbial expressions, which he re- 

 commends to be committed to memory by the learner. The compo- 

 nent parts of the complex adverbs admit of further investigation. — 

 Prepositions are divided into proper and improper. These also admit 

 of further explanation, and I can affirm, from some few essays made 

 on the subject, that their theory is very curious, if pursued according 

 to Home Tooke's system in his " Diversions of Purley." — Interjec- 

 tions. — -These would also bear similar investigation, as being expres- 

 sive of the various passions, sensations and emotions of man. Conjunc- 





