Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Outlines of English Grammar: For the Use of Junior Classes
Thus, in the sentence The little bird ?ies swiftly through the air, bird 15 the name of something that we speak about; the points out which bird is meant; little describes the bird; ?ies tells us something about the bird, by stating what it does; swiftly denotes the manner in which the bird does this; through shows how the action of the bird has to do with the air.
The different sorts or classes in which words may be arranged are called Parts of Speech.
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