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On the contrary, however, languages exceedingly similar in other respects, may differ in the order of the parts of a term; e.g. the German dialects, throughout, place the article before the noun, and keep it separate: whereas the Scandinavian tongues not only make it follow, but incorporate it with the substantive with which it agrees.
"Well," said I, "whatever the word may be in Armenian, it is a noun; and as we have never yet declined an Armenian noun together, we may as well take this opportunity of declining one. Belle, there are ten declensions in Armenian!" "What's a declension?" "The way of declining a noun." "Then, in the civilest way imaginable, I decline the noun. Is that a declension?"
‘Well,’ said I, ‘whatever the word may be in Armenian, it is a noun; and as we have never yet declined an Armenian noun together, we may as well take this opportunity of declining one. Belle, there are ten declensions in Armenian!’ ‘What’s a declension?’ ‘The way of declining a noun.’ ‘Then, in the civilest way imaginable, I decline the noun. Is that a declension?’
It is now above twenty years since the two quarto volumes of the Diversions of Purley were published, and fifty since the same theory was promulgated in the celebrated Letter to Dunning. Yet it is a curious example of the Spirit of the Age that Mr. C helps himself to English, and Mr. He defines a noun to be the name of a thing. Is quackery a thing, i.e. a substance?
Alphonse Poller was the brilliant scientist who devised this method of taking impressions and making models. He called it 'moulage. The word is used either as a verb or a noun. "Off hand, I should say that 'Fingy' Smith's teeth will not fit into the marks made in this apple. When the plaster model comes up here we will see." "What of it?" belligerently protested Conners.
Ages after, in the reign of King Alfred, we still find the word used as a common noun; for the Chronicle mentions that a body of Danish freebooters 'fared to a waste ceaster in Wirral; it is hight Lega ceaster; that is to say, Legionis castra, now Chester.
It is blessed to think of the recognising of lost and loved ones. But all these blessednesses, heaped together, as it seems to me, would become sickeningly the same if prolonged through eternity, unless we had God for our very own. Eternal is an awful word, even when the noun that goes with it is blessedness.
No language wholly fails to distinguish noun and verb, though in particular cases the nature of the distinction may be an elusive one. It is different with the other parts of speech. Not one of them is imperatively required for the life of language. But there are, strictly speaking, no other parts of speech. The adjective is a verb.
In the original, there is a play on the words to tan and ba,ora which scarcely needs to be pointed out. The original is, "jis Ki itni ta'rif aur ishtiyak zahir kiya," where the word kiya agrees with ishtiyak only, being the noun nearest. A shallow critic would be apt to say that this is bad grammar.
The following five extracts, in some of which the English adjective moral, and in some the French noun moral, is meant, are printed here exactly as they originally appeared, that is, with moral in the same type as the rest, and they are enough to suggest how easy it is for real doubts to arise about which word is being used 'An astounding increase in the moral discipline and patriotism of German soldiers. Has, or has not, a comma dropped out after moral?
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