The rudiments of grammar.: The rules composed in English verse, for the greater benefit and delight of young beginners. / By James Shirley.

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The rudiments of grammar.: The rules composed in English verse, for the greater benefit and delight of young beginners. / By James Shirley.
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Shirley, James, 1596-1666.
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London :: Printed by J. Macock for R. Lownds, and are to be sold at his shop at the white Lyon in Paul's Church-yard,
1656.
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Latin language -- Grammar
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"The rudiments of grammar.: The rules composed in English verse, for the greater benefit and delight of young beginners. / By James Shirley." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93177.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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Adjectives with the signe [of] govern a Genitive.

OF] or [among] when they immediate are After Nouns Adjectives that do compare, Or numeral Nouns or Interrogative, They'r tokens of a following Genitive.

The fairest of the Apes is deformed.

Simiarum pulcherrima est deformis, pro

Simia pulcherrima.

Nouns Partitive, Interrogative, Comparative, Super∣lative, and Nouns of Number, govern a Genitive.

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A Partitive is that which signifies a part of a multitude or many severally, as aliquis, alius, alter, uterque, neu∣ter, nullus, solus, quisque, quisquis, quidam, quilibet, quicunque, unusquisque, pauci, omnes, nemo. Their La∣tine is often varied by Prepositions, e, de, ex, inter, ante, as for

Simia pulcherrima, is made Simiarum pulcherrima, ex Simiis pulcherrima inter Simias pulcherrima.
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