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Name some participial nouns.--What are abstract nouns?--What is the
distinction between abstract nouns and adjectives?--What are natural
nouns?--Artificial nouns?--What is the distinction between _material_
and _immaterial_ nouns?--Are nouns ever of the masculine and feminine
gender?--Give examples.--When are nouns, naturally neuter, converted
into the masculine or feminine gender?--Give examples.--Speak some nouns
that are always in the singular number.--Some that are always
plural.--Speak some that are in the same form in both numbers.--Name
_all_ the various ways of forming the plural number of nouns.--Of what
number are the nouns _news, means, alms_, and _amends_?--Name the
plurals to the following compound nouns, _handful, cupful, spoonful,
brother-in-law, court-martial_.
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NOTES ON PHILOSOPHICAL GRAMMAR.
Perhaps no subject has, in this age, elicited more patient research,
and critical investigation of original, constituent principles,
formations, and combinations, than the English language. The
legitimate province of philology, however, as I humbly conceive,
has, in some instances, been made to yield to that of philosophy, so
far as to divert the attention from the combinations of our language
which refinement has introduced, to radical elements and
associations which no way concern the progress of literature, or the
essential use for which language was intended.
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