I. - Outline of Classification. SUBSTANTIVE WORDS. (a) ESSENTIAL SUBSTANTIVES, OR NOUNS." 1. Specific Nouns. 1. Personal. 2. Personifying. 3. Geographical. 4. Historical. 5. Technical. 2. Generic Nouns. 1. Common. 2. Correlative. 3. Collective. 4. Diminutive. 5. Abstract. 6. Verbal. 7. Technical. (b) RELATIVE SUBSTANTIVES, OR PRONOUNS." 1. Independent Pronouns, or "Per- | 3. Interrogative Pronouns. sonal Pronouns." 1. Simple. 2. Compound (Reflexive or Emphatic). 2. Dependent Pronouns, or "Rela tive Pronouns." 1. Simple. 2. Compound. 3. Complex, or "Double Relatives," (Expansive or Emphatic). 4. Adjective Pronouns. 1. Qualifying, (Positive, Com parative, Superlative.) 2. Specifying. 1. Pure. 2. Pronominal. 3. Numeral. Definite. Indefinite, &c. 4. Possessive. Nominal. 5. Verbal. 66 (c) CONTINGENT OR TECHNICAL SUBSTANTIVES, OR SUBSTAN 1. Substantive, or Nominal Verb. (In a Substantive Phrase.) 2. Modifying, or Adjective Verb. (In an Adjective Phrase.) CIRCUMSTANTIAL WORDS. (a) MODIFYING CIRCUMSTANTIVES, OR “ADVERBS.” (Office.) 1. Local, or "Adverbs of Place." 1. Pure. (Form.) 2. Temporal, or "Adverbs of 2. Substantive. To determine, according to the outline given, the classifications, offices, relations, or dependence, of the specific words exemplified, and their construction in diagram, according to the analysis involved. Classified Examples of Complex words. SUBSTANTIVES. Noun.- {Subs've.-Ante. Office.-Gram. (In a Pr. Prop.) 1. What property he had has all been wasted. 2. Whatever advantages you give him, he will faithfully improve. Rel. Pro. (Subs've.-Gram. (In the Sim. Prop.) Conj've. 66 (In the Compl. Sen.) 3. The evil that men do lives after them.-Shakespeare. 4. My heart is like a sleeping lake Which takes the hue of cloud and sky.-Willis. 5. Such as I have give I unto thee.-Bible. Compl. Rel. Pro.— { Subs've.-Ante. Office.-Gram. (Prin. Prop.) (Sub. Prop.) 6. What reason weaves by passion is undone.-Pope. 7. At once came forth whatever creeps.-Milton. Subs've. -Gram. (As a phrase subseq'nt.) Rel. Conj've.-Gram. (As connecting to the antecedent term.) Compl. Adv. Subs've.· Adv. -Log. (As indicative of circumstance.) 8. Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn To where thy meteor-glories burn.-Drake. PHENOMENAL WORDS. (Adj.-Gram. Poss. Spec. Adj. Rel.-Log. (As suggestive of the substantive term represented.) 9. His spirit rises with the rising wind.-Hemans. 10. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. -Beattie. 11. "His being a minister prevented his rising to civil power." 12. They are still men,-men whose bosoms beat with the same passions as our own.-Hildreth. 13. There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.-Shake. 14. "I have an engagement which prevents my staying longer with you." |