Under this Head may be reckon'd the placing the Adjective after the Substantive, the Transposition of Words, the turning the Adjective into a Substantive, with several other Foreign Modes of Speech which this Poet has naturalized to give his Verse the greater Sound, and throw it out of Prose.

Under this Head may be reckon'd the placing the Adjective after the Substantive, the Transposition of Words, the turning the Adjective into a Substantive, with several other Foreign Modes of Speech which this Poet has naturalized to give his Verse the greater Sound, and throw it out of Prose.

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The pretty name of May-flower is not so popular, after all, as that of Trailing-Arbutus, where the graceful and appropriate adjective redeems the substantive, which happens to be Latin and incorrect at the same time.

SECOND DEFINITION:"A Substantive or Noun is the name of any thing that exists, or of which we have any notion.

He should therefore have said, "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we have any notion."

THIRD DEFINITION:"An Adjective is a word added to a substantive, to express its quality.

It seems doubtful whether "its quality" is the adjective's quality, or the substantive's; but in either sense, the phrase is false; for an adjective is added to a noun, not to express any quality either of the adjective or of the noun, but to express some quality of the thing signified by the noun.

But our men of nine parts of speech innovated yet more: they added the Article, as did the Greeks; divided the Noun into Substantive and Adjective; and, without good reason, suppressed the Participle.

I and he are pronouns; now is an adverb; see and walks are verbs; the is an article; good, an adjective; man and difficulty are nouns, the former substantive, the latter abstract; coming is a participle; but, a conjunction; alas!

"Some times the adjective becomes a substantive.

"Every adjective agrees in number with some substantive expressed or understood.

(2.) Of the Substantive and Adjective; under which the agreement of participles, and of some pronouns, is placed in the form of a note.

Of one Substantive with an Other; which construction is placed by Lily and many others among the figures of syntax, and is called apposition.

Of an Adjective with a Substantive; under which principle, we are told to take adjective pronouns and participles.

Yet Lowth says, "The adjective in English, having no variation of gender and number, cannot but agree with the substantive in these respects.

"The adjective is put absolutely, or without its substantive.

Does every adjective "belong to a substantive, expressed or understood," as Murray avers?

Why is it reasonable to limit the government of the possessive to nouns only, or to words taken substantive?

How do Dr. Adam and others suppose "the gerund in English" to become a "substantive," or noun?

"As, for example, between the adjective and following substantive."Ib., ii. 104. "Witness the following hyperbole, too bold even for an Hotspur."Ib., 193.

As I was describing the Journey of Israel from Egypt, and added the Divine Presence amongst them, I perceived a Beauty in the Psalm which was entirely new to me, and which I was going to lose; and that is, that the Poet utterly conceals the Presence of God in the Beginning of it, and rather lets a Possessive Pronoun go without a Substantive, than he will so much as mention any thing of Divinity there.

Every articulate language is composed of substantive, adjective and copulative ideas.

"Fix your mind on the adjective 'blunt' and the substantive 'pistol-shot'; they will do you good service.

Now I defy you to prove that woman is not a substantive, created for herself.