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16 GAELIC GRAMMAR.
take the places of Adjectives, as Enlargements, or of
Adverbs, as Extensions, in the Sentence.
Is bochd duine gun rath, gun seol. Enlarged Sub-
ject.
Chnnnaic mi eirbleach gun sgairt, air chrith. En-
larged Object.
Thainig Seumas beag na ruith, gu luath, le bruthach.
Extended Predicate.
Exercise VII.
Tell—
(1.) The Prepositional phrases.
(2.) Whether equivalent to Adjectives or Ad-
verbs.
(3.) What words do they qualify or modify ?
Dheanadh tu sin gu maitli. Cha tig mi a chaoidh.
Bheirear dhutsa duals fhathast. Thogainn fonn gu
ceolmhor reidh. Chaidh Fionn do'n bheinn. Dh'eirich
Uilleam moch anns a' mhaduinu. Tha nead na circe-
fraoiche sa mhuillean dubh. Euisg iadsan na caoirich
mhora mhaola. Tha maoisleach a chul-bhuidh air
feadh na duislainn. Tha do dhoire daonan gorm.
Tha suaimhneas air gach luib fo bhlath. Tha baigh
air gach creig agus air gach cluain. An robh thu
ad thosd an cus a chnuic fo dhubhar 1 Tha guth na
Cuthaige air do stuchd. Cluith thusa " Calum crubach
as a ghleann." Cairibh mi ri taobh nan allt> Leag
mo cheann fo sgaile a bharraich. Chi mi Sgur-Eilt
air bruaich a ghlinn.
" Air muir, air tir, an innsibh cian
Biodh moladh Dhe gu brath.
" Air maduinn mosglam fein gu moch
A's seinneam ceol s;u h-ard."

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