--Are compound adjectives
compared?--What is said of the termination _ish_, and of the adverb
_very?_--When does an adjective become a noun?--What character does a
noun assume when placed before another noun?--How can you prove that
_custom_ is the standard of grammatical accuracy?
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PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.
ADNOUNS.
_Adnoun_ or _Adjective_, comes from the Latin, _ad_ and _jicio_, to
_add to_.
Adnouns are a class of words added to nouns to vary their
comprehension, or to determine their extension. Those which effect
the former object, are called _adjectives_, or _attributes;_ and
those which effect the latter, _restrictives_. It is not, in all
cases, easy to determine to which of these classes an adnoun should
be referred. Words which express simply the _qualities_ of nouns,
are adjectives; and such as denote their _situation_ or _number_,
are restrictives.
Adjectives were originally nouns or verbs.
Some consider the adjective, in its present application, _exactly_
equivalent to a noun connected to another noun by means of
juxtaposition, of a preposition, or of a corresponding flexion.
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