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;§ 5, 6 PARTS OF SPEECH.—OF THE NOUN. 9§ 5. PARTS OF SPEECH.29.—The Parts of Speech in the Latin languageare eight, viz:1. Noun or Substantive, Adjective, Pronoun,Verb,2, Adverb, Preposition, Interjection, Conjunction,declined.undeclined.30.—Any part of speech used simply as a word, and spokenof, is regarded as a noun (271). Thus used, it is indeclinable,and in the neuter sender.31.—A Noun is§ 6. THE NOUN.the name of any person, place,or thing ; as Cicero, Poma, homo, liber.1. A Proper Noun is the name applied to anindividual only ; as, Cicero, Aprllis, Poma.To this class belong,Patronymics, or those which express one's parentage or family; as,Priamides, the son of Priam.Gentile, or Patrial, which denote one's country ; as, Romanics, Gallus.Obs.A proper noun applied to more than one, becomes a common nounas, duodecim Cczsares, the twelve Caesars.2. A Common Noun is a name applied to allthings of the same sort ; as, vir, a man ; domus, ahouse ;liber, a book.32.—Nouns are of two kinds, Proper and Common.Note. A Proper noun is the name of an individual only, and is used todistinguish that individual from all others of the same class. A Commonnoun is the name of a class of objects, and is equally applicable to all the individualscontained in it.33.—Under this class may be ranged,1. Collective nouns, or nouns of multitude, which signify manv in thesingular number ; as, populus, a people ;exercltus, an army.