Only the inflexional endings of substantives and of verbs are used by Dunbar somewhat more frequently as full syllables, e.
Substantives and verbs are treated in a similar way, e.
These are generally accented and alliterate, if compounded with substantives or adjectives, but are not accented and do not alliterate if compounded with verbs or other particles,[58] e.
The substantives stok and fader have no verb to them, but are mentioned as being the subject of the sentence.
Adjectives are quite freely used as Substantives in the Plural.
Adjectives are less freely used as Substantives in the Singular than in the Plural.
Now they are always redundant, unless their Substantives receive from them either new Ideas, or some Illustration and Ornament too of their own.
For adjectival words derive their number from the supposita but substantives from themselves, according to the form signified.
The reason of this is that substantives signify something by way of substance, while adjectives signify something by way of accident, which adheres to a subject.
Those which signify it as substantives are predicated of the three persons in the singular only, and not in the plural.
Adjectives that have no substantivesmust be of the masculine gender, because man is always understood.
Substantives and adjectives are formed from substantives and prepositions by the addition of y in the masculine; e.
In all other substantives these particles supply the place of possessives.
These syllables you must add even to substantives and verbs in talking with them.
Persons better acquainted with the language generally abstain from the use of this word lanà, in place of which they make noun substantives of verbs, by which the instrument or means of doing a thing is admirably expressed.
If therefore the first inventors could give no names to any ideas but those they had already, it follows that the first substantives could never have been anything more than proper names.
They are thesubstantives of which these other words are properly the adjectives.
We are forced by language to use substantives which in their nature have only the sense of adjectives.
Some perhaps may object to our regarding a as an article, and may remind us of the definition that an article is "a word prefixed to substantives to point them out, and show how far their signification extends.
Substantives in Maori have two numbers, singular and plural.
In most American idioms their origin from substantives is readily recognizable.
Frequently these substantives refer to parts of the body, and this, in passing, suggests the antiquity of this class of words and their value in comparison.
Even among philosophers, we may say, broadly, that only those universals which are named by adjectives or substantives have been much or often recognized, while those named by verbs and prepositions have been usually overlooked.
Both these opposing philosophies, interesting as they are, result, in my opinion, from an undue attention to one sort of universals, namely the sort represented by adjectives and substantives rather than by verbs and prepositions.
But though outwardly alike, they are conceived as different from substantives the moment they are used in a sentence for the purpose of predicating or of qualifying a substantive.
We have abundant evidence to show that originally there was no distinction between substantives and adjectives, or object-words and quality-words.
We have evidence that many substantives were of later origin than many verbs, and vice versâ; but this does not show which of these two parts of speech preceded the other as a whole.
Substantives of this kind and others formed from the verb with the particles ka- and -an have already been noticed under the head of the Substantive.
Now we will vary by Substantives or Conditionals, after this Manner.
Prepositions+ and +conjunctions+ are also less important than substantives and verbs.
A compound subject with or or nor takes a verb in the singular number if the substantivesare singular.
Hence the twosubstantives regularly[18] denote different persons or things.
Modifiers may be attached not only to substantives and verbs, but also to adjectives and adverbs.
Number is that property of substantives which shows whether they indicate one person, place, or thing or more than one.
Number is that property of substantives which shows whether they indicate one person or thing or more than one.
A +compound subject+ with or or nor takes a verb in the singular number if the substantives are singular (p.
Both substantives and verbs, then, are absolutely necessary in framing sentences.
Mention thesubstantives that make up the compound subjects and the verbs that make up the compound predicates in § 450; in Exercise 4.
Substantives have inflections of case to indicate their grammatical relations to verbs, to prepositions, or to other substantives.
From the masculine substantives formed from them, and denoting the agent, they may be distinguished by a difference of inflection.
Thus, although the plural of substantives like axis and genius are Latin, the possessive cases are English.
This with substantives and adjectives is less common.
When two or more substantives following each other denote different objects, the article is repeated, and precedes each.
Cases of doubtful number, wherein two substantives precede a verb, and wherein it is uncertain whether the verb should be singular or plural, are decided by determining whether the substantives be in apposition or the contrary.
Substantives and Adjectives were both formerly included under the term Nouns or Names; and we have still to distinguish, when they are under special consideration, as they are here, Nouns Substantive, and Nouns Adjective.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substantives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
