A Vocabulary of English and Tamil Words: To which are Added : a Collection of Familiar Dialogues the First Rudiments of Grammar and a Few Letters and Proverbs1840 - Tamil language - 182 pages |
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Page 163 - ... language, according to the established usage and custom of it. Grammar treats of sentences, and of the several parts of which they are compounded. Sentences consist of words; words of one or more syllables ; syllables of one or more letters; so that, in fact, letters, syllables, words and sentences make up the whole subject of grammar.
Page 165 - There are in English nine Sorts of Words, or, as they are commonly called, Parts of Speech. 1. The Article; prefixed to substantives, when they are common names of things, to point them out, and to show how far their signification extends. 2. The Substantive, or Noun; being the name of any thing conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion.
Page 163 - Words consist of one or more syllables ; Syllables of one or more letters. So that Letters, Syllables, Words, and Sentences, make up the whole subject of Grammar.
Page 122 - ... 1st first 2nd second 3rd third 4th fourth 5th fifth 6th sixth 7th seventh 8th eighth 9th ninth 10th tenth...
Page 163 - Etymology, by which we are taught the deduction of one word from another, and the various modifications by which the sense of the same word is diversified.1 4.
Page 137 - Take another comb. Give me my handkerchief. There is a clean one, sir. Give me that which is in my pocket. I gave it to the washerwoman ;. it was foul. Has she brought my linen ? Yes, sir ; there wants nothing. What clothes will you wear to-day, sir ? These I had yesterday.
Page 166 - ... being the name of any thing conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion. 3. The Pronoun, standing instead of the noun. 4. The Adjective, added to the noun to express the quality of it. 5. The Verb, or Word, by way of eminence, signifying to be, to do, or to suffer. 6. The Adverb, added to verbs, and also to adjectives and other adverbs, to express some circumstance belonging to them. 7. The Preposition, put before nouns and pronouns chiefly to connect them with other words, and to show...