It will, however, be
impossible for them to study it without profit. The meaning will grow upon
them. In studying our questions and suggestions the pupils should have the
"Extract" before them, and should try to verify in it all that is taught
concerning it.
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PARTS OF SPEECH SUBDIVIDED
LESSON 85.
CLASSES OF NOUNS AND PRONOUNS.
+Introductory Hints+.--You have now reached a point where it becomes
necessary to divide the eight great classes of words into subclasses.
You have learned that nouns are the names of things; as, _girl_, _Sarah_.
The name _girl_ is held in common by all girls, and hence does not
distinguish one girl from another. The name _Sarah_ is not thus held in
common; it does distinguish one girl from other girls. Any name which
belongs in common to all things of a class we call a +Common Noun+; and any
particular name of an individual, distinguishing this individual from
others of its class, we call a +Proper Noun+. The "proper, or individual,
names" which in Rule 1, Lesson 8, you were told to begin with capital
letters are proper nouns.
Such a word as _wheat_, _music_, or _architecture_ does not distinguish one
thing from others of its class; there is but one thing in the class denoted
by each, each thing forms a class by itself; and so we call these words
common nouns.
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