PART
II.
INFLECTIONS.
10. The Parts of Speech in Latin are the same as in English, viz. Nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections; but the Latin has no article. 11. Of these eight parts of speech the first four are capable of Inflection, i.e. of undergoing change of form to express modifications of meaning. In case of Nouns, Adjectives, and Pronouns, this process is called Declension; in case of Verbs, Conjugation. 101
CHAPTER .A.
I.- Declension . NOUNS.
12. A Noun is the name of a
quality / as, Caesar, Caesar/ virtiis, courage.
Roma,
person, place, thing, or Rome /
penna,
feather /
I. Nouns are either Proper or Common. Proper nouns are permanent names of persons or places; as, Caesar, Roma. Other nouns are Common; as, penna, virtiis. 2. Nouns are also distinguished as Concrete or Abstract.
a) Concrete nouns are those which designate individual objects; as, mons, mountain ; pes, foot; dies, day; mens, mind. 9