iSi grafnmatical disquisitions. jiug.i^,. 



sative of Englifh nouns ; so this clafs of nominatives, . 

 like all others, becomes accusatives also, merely by a 

 change of their position with respect to the verb. 



In the next place, this clafs of nouns can be regu-. 

 larly declined, through all their cases, by the aid of. 

 prepositions, in the same manner as any other nouus. 

 in the EngUlh language, as thus : 



Nominative, John's house, a hand saw. 



Genitive, of John's house, of a hand saw.. 



Dative, to John's house, to a hand saw. 



Abla tive,. by John's house, by a hand saw. . 



And in the same manner may be declined every other 

 noun belonging to this clafs of v/ords. 



Lastly, they are always the name of some particu— 

 lar.object, which they denote as distinctly as any other • 

 noun whatever ; and, therefore, many words of this 

 clafs find a place in every dictionary as propernames.. 

 The following are a few words of this clafs that 

 have been selected from Johnson's dictionary, air- 

 pump, ballad-singer, bee-flour, beards breach, bird^s, 

 fQOt, bijhop-iveed, blind-man'' s buff , bristol-stone, but- 

 cher'' s broQTTi, cat^s eye,. Charleses wain, cheese-?n.onger, 

 chur<:h-yard, day^light, dial-plate^ &.c. If Charles'' s 

 wain and i j/^o^^w^^^, be admitted as nouns, properly so 

 -«all€dj under what pretext can we refuse the same 

 -naove to Saint PauPs church-yard, the queen^s house^ 

 or any other word, of which these genitives, as they 

 Jaave been called, form a part ? 



That the phrases into which this clafs of words en-^ 

 ter, ape names in the strict and proper sense ©f the 

 word, farther appears from this circumstance, that 

 the names thus __£ormed, and simple uncoi»pouQde.d 



