Part 4 (1/2)

ETYMOLOGY

Etyy teaches the deduction of one word from another, and the various modifications by which the sense of the same word is diversified; as horse, horses; I love, I loved

Of the ARTICLE

The English have two articles, an or a, and the

AN, A

A has an indefinite signification, and ood book; that is, one aood; He was killed by a sword; that is, some sword; This is a better book for a man than a boy; that is, for one of those that are ht enter without resistance; that is, any arular, we speak in the plural without an article; as these are good books

I have inal article, because it is only the Saxon an, or aen, one, applied to a new use, as the Ger cut off before a consonant in the speed of utterance

Grae direct, that an should be used before h; whence it appears that the English anciently asperated less An is still used before the silent h; as an herb, an honest dom for a horse Shakespeare

An or a can only be joined with a singular: the correspondent plural is the noun without an article, as, I want a pen, I want pens; or with the pronominal adjective some, as, I want some pens

THE

The has a particular and definite signification

The fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose ht death into the world Milton

That is, that particular fruit, and this world in which we live So, He giveth fodder for the cattle, and green herbs for the use of s that are cattle, and his use that is man

The is used in both numbers

I am as free as Nature first an, When wild in woods the noble savage ran Dryden

Many words are used without articles; as

1 Proper nainus, Aristarchus, Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London God is used as a proper name

2 Abstract naliness, love, hatred, anger, good-nature, kindness

3 Words in which nothing but theis implied: This is not beer, but water; this is not brass, but steel

Of NOUNS SUBSTANTIVE