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IN Latin Speech there be Eight parts.
Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Participle, Adverb, Conjunction, Preposition, Interjection.WE cannot speak nor discourse except i•• be of somewhat, i. e. of some Subject▪ and something also we must say (affirm or de∣ny) of that Subject; for either it is, or hath, or doth, or suffereth something of another. So that these two are so necessary, that without them we cannot express our minds. The rest are Auxilia∣ries for the more easy, short and convenient ex∣pression: As Pronouns instead of Nouns. Partici∣ples partake both of Nouns and Verbs. Adverbs more fully express th•• signification of Verbs; sometimes also of Nouns. Prepositions and Con∣junctions belong to Sentences.
A Noun* 1.1 is the Name of Thing, or Subject, and every thing must be Signified by a Noun, which is its Name.
Of Nouns some be Substantives,* 1.2 which signi∣fie such things as subsist of themselves, and without the Addition of any other Noun may be the Subject of our Speech or discourse. In English also they may have, [a, an] or [the] applied