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10 GAELIC GRAMMAR.
Exercise II.
Chual' thu sgeula. Sgaoil a' chearc a sgiathan
ThaiTuing an t-eacli an crann. Fhreagair Calum an
litir. Phaigh athair na fiachan. Chum esan a
theanga. Dh'innis mi naigheachd. Liib e glun. Cais-
giclh tu iad. JS"! mise beallach. Fhuair mise moran
litrichean. DeocL skdnfe cm High ars' an t-uaclidaran.
Chluinneadh tu anail na luch. Mhol e na Gaidhil.
'S e an slachdan heag an gille arsa mise. A dhaoine
uaisle tliuirt 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, Verhs, 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 nowi means
name (Lat. nomen). A Noun, therefore, is the name of
anythincj ; as duine, tigh, gaoth, firinn, breug, Tomas,
Duneidean, America.
The Verb group contains all words that express
Action, as liuith mi, / ran ; Thuit mi, I fell ; Thainig
iad, they came; Bhuail thu rm,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 ])ass-
ing over ; Intransitive means not jMSsing over.
A verb is therefore said to be Transitive when
the action it expresses ]^)asses over to an object
in order to make the sense complete : as Itinrb