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III Nouns are derived fro of _e_: as, _punish, punishment; abate, abatement; repent, repentance; condole, condolence; forfeit, forfeiture; stow, stowage; equip, equipage; truck, truckage_

2 By a change of the termination of the verb, into _se, ce, sion, tion, ation_, or _ition_: as, _expand, expanse, expansion; pretend, pretence, pretension; invent, invention; create, creation; omit, omission; provide, provision; reform, reformation; oppose, opposition_ These denote either the act of doing, or the thing done

3 By the adding of _er_ or _or_: as, _hunt, hunter; write, writer; collect, collector; assert, assertor; instruct, instructer_, or _instructor_ These generally denote the doer To denote the person to who in _ee_: as, _pronee_

4 Nouns and Verbs are soraphy, but different in pronunciation: as, a _house_, to _house_; a _use_, to _use_; a _reb'el_, to _rebel'_; a _rec'ord_, to _record'_; a _cem'ent_, to _cement'_ Of such pairs, it may often be difficult to say which word is the primitive

5 In many instances, nouns and verbs are wholly alike as to foruished by their sense and construction only: as, _love_, to _love; fear_, to _fear; sleep_, to _sleep_;--to _revise_, a _revise_; to _rebuke_, a _rebuke_ In these, we have but the same word used differently

IV Nouns are often derived fro, s_: and, occasionally, one is formed from such a word and an adverb or a perfect participle joined with it; as, ”The _turning-away_,”--”His _goings-forth_,”--”Your _having-boasted_ of it”

SECTION III--DERIVATION OF ADJECTIVES

In _English_, Adjectives are derived from nouns, from adjectives, from verbs, or from participles

I Adjectives are derived fro of _ous, ious, eous, y, ey, ic, al, ical_ or _ine_: (soe of solorious; right, righteous; rock, rocky; clay, clayey; poet, poetic_, or _poetical; nation, national; y, clerical; adaenerally apply the properties of their primitives, to the nouns to which they relate

2 By the adding of _ful_: as, _fear, fearful; cheer, cheerful; grace, graceful; shame, shameful; power, powerful_ These cos, and denote abundance

3 By the adding of _soaerate

4 By the adding of _en_: as, _oak, oaken; silk, silken; wheat, wheaten; oat, oaten; hemp, hempen_ Here the derivative denotes theof _ly_ or _ish_: as, _friend, friendly; gentleentlemanly; child, childish; prude, prudish_ These denote resenifies _like_

6 By the adding of _able_ or _ible_: as, _fashi+on, fashi+onable; access, accessible_ But these terenerally, and more properly, added to verbs See Obs 17th, 18th, &c, on the Rules for Spelling

7 By the adding of _less_: as, _house, houseless; death, deathless; sleep, sleepless; bottom, bottomless_ These denote privation or exemption--the absence of what is na of _ed_: as, _saint, sainted; bigot, bigoted; mast, masted; itted_ These have a resemblance to participles, and some of them are rarely used, except when joined with some other word to for-eared, hundred-handed, flat-nosed, hard-hearted,from proper naland, English; Dane, Danish; Portugal, Portuguese; Plato, Platonic_

10 Nouns are often converted into adjectives, without change of terold_ chain; _silver_ knee-buckles

II Adjectives are derived from _Adjectives_ in several different ways:--

1 By the adding of _ish_ or _solad, gladsome_ These denote quality with so of _dis, in_, or _un_: as, _honest, dishonest; consistent, inconsistent; wise, unwise_ These express a negation of the quality denoted by their pri of _y_ or _ly_: as, _swarth, swarthy; good, goodly_ Of these there are but few; for almost all the derivatives of the latter form are adverbs

III Adjectives are derived fro of _able_ or _ible_: (soe of some of the final letters:) as, _perish, perishable; vary, variable; convert, convertible; divide, divisible_, or _dividable_ These, according to their analogy, have usually a passive i action 2 By the adding of _ive_ or _ory_: (soe of soate, interrogative, interrogatory; defend, defensive; defa in _ate_, are mostly verbs; but some of them may be employed as adjectives, in the same form, especially in poetry; as, _reprobate, complicate_

IV Adjectives are derived from _Participles_, not by suffixes, but in these ways:--

1 By the prefixing of _un_, arded, unreserved, unendowed, unendeared, unendorsed, unencountered, unencumbered, undisheartened, undishonoured_ Of this sort there are veryof the participle with so, hollow-sounding, long-drawn, deep-laid, dear-purchased, down-trodden_ These, too, are numerous