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GAELIC GRAMMAR.
Exercise II.
Chual' thu sgeula. Sgaoil a' chearc a sgiathau
Tharming an t-eacli an crann. Fhreagair Calum an
litir. Phaigh athair na fiachan. Chum esan a
theanga. Dh'innis mi naigheaclid. Lub e glun. Cais-
gidli tu iad. Ni.mise beallach. Fhuair mise moran
litrichean. Deoch slainte an High ars' an t-uachdaran.
Chluinneadh tu anail na luch. Mhol e na Gaidhil.
'S e cm slachdan beag an gille arsa mise. A dhaolne
uaisle thuirt an t-uachdaran.
The parts of a Sentence are made up of Words, as
the whole Sentence is, and the whole language.
All the words of the Gaelic language are divided
into eight groups or classes called Parts of Speech,
viz.. Nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs,
Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections.
The Article is not given a separate class ; it is in every
respect an Adjective.
The Noun group is a very large one, containing
the Names of everything. The word notin means
name (Lat. nomen). A Noun, therefore, is the 7iame of
anything ; as duine, tigh, gaoth, firinn, breug, Tomas,
Duneidean, America.
The Verb group contains all words that express
Action, as lluith mi, I ran ; Thuit mi, I fell ; Thainig
iad, they came; Bhuail thu mi, you struck me; Theich e,
he ran away ; Tog do cheann, lift your head.
The group is again divided into Transitive
and Intransitive Verbs. Transitive means pass-
ing over ; Intransitive means not passing over.
A verb is therefore said to be Transitive when
the action it expresses passes over to an object
in order to make the sense complete : as liinn