Efita how many, is used with the substantival termination na: efitana what number?
The cardinals with a substantivalending na form ordinals.
Archbishop Whately has some remarks on this substantival power in his Logic.
On the other hand, it ought not to be concealed that another word, whereof the preponderance of the adjectival over the substantival power is undoubted, is found in the Old English, with just the same inconsistency as the word self; i.
The evidence, however, of the forms like myself, as well as other facts adduceable from comparative philology, prove the substantival character of self.
In the exhibition of the second construction of the word self it was assumed that the case was a case of apposition, and that self was substantival in character.
Hence, like self, it is, in the strictest sense, a substantival pronoun.
That the older forms in -ing are substantival in origin, and=the Anglo-Saxon -ung.
The adjectival may be an adverb or a preposition; thesubstantival element is often a verbal, which serves in composition as a generic name, but which cannot be used as an independent word--the synthesis always retains the verbal form.
Proper names they had not as a rule, but they are getting cult-titles under the influence of a priesthood, which titles may in time perhaps attain to something of the definiteness of substantival names.
I am inclined to think it is only an inference from the want of substantival names in so many Roman deities; surely, it would be argued, the pontifices must have had some reason for this.
But substantival datives and accusatives, as in Modern English, follow the predicate.
In his other writings Alfred manifests a partiality for the Transposed order in dependent clauses, except in the case of substantival clauses introduced by #þæt#.
O in relation to "a thing" (substantival or pronominal).
The adjectival in -A, the adverbial in -E, and the substantival in -O.
Series ending in O (thing (not specified) indefinite), substantival or pronominal.
Besides these, substantival and adverbial numerals can be used.
That the older forms in -ing are substantival in origin, and = the Anglo-Saxon -ung.
The other substantival component of river-names, -HANNE or -HAN (Abn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substantival" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.