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The Kelt or Gael. 33
and lairmbearla or adjunct. Pearsa included the
agent and his action or passion ; Ainm the name
of all objects and instruments of action ; and
lairmbearla all circumstances of time, place, and
manner. The tendency of present grammarians
seems to be to return to that state of things ; but
for a long time the forms of the Latin grammar
have superseded it ; and the parts of speech are
article, noun, adjective, pronoun, verb, adverb. Present parts.
preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Some
add participle.
There is only one article, the definite, or the, Article.
whose singular form is an, with the plural na.
It is declined, but only one case shows signs of
gender.
Nouns have two numbers, singular and plural : Noun.
two genders, masculine and feminine, though
Zeuss gives a neuter also. There were origin-
ally only three cases, but there are now the six
Latin ones. This is merely a nominal difference,
as the accusative is the same in form as the
nominative, the ablative as the dative, and the
vocative as the genitive. Nouns make their
cases and numbers, not only by an external
modification as by the addition of a letter or
letters, but also by internal modification of the
vowels of the roots, and sometimes, but more
rarely, by totally different words, as fear, man,
ban, woman.
Adjectives, pronouns, and participles agree, Adjective.
with a few exceptions, with the noun in gender,
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