alytical practical grammar - Toronto Public Library

18 ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
91.-3. In respect of Signification and Use, words are
divided into different classes, called Parts of Speech. .
92. The principle according to which word~ are classified is their use,
or the part they perform in the expreRsion of thought. Words which are
names of objects are classpd as nouns; those which qualify nouns are
adjectives; those which attribute an action or state to some subject Bl'e
verbs, &c, Hence, when the sallie word i, used for diffaent pUl'posesat
oue time a- a name, at another to qualify a noun, and at another to
expl'es, an action or state -it should, in parsing, be assigned to that class
of words, the office of which it performs for the time: thus, "Before
honor [noun] is humility," .. Honor [verb] thy father and thy mother."
93. PARSING is the art of resolving a sentence into its
elements or parts of speech (574, 575).
94. Parsing is distinguished into Etymological and Syntactical.
95, A wOI'd is parsed Etymologically by sLuting the class of words to
which it belnng~, with its accidents 01' grammatical properties.
96. A word is parsed Syntactically by stating, in addition, the relation
in which it stands to other words, and tbe rules according to which they
are combined in phrases and sentences.
97. Thesl' two, though related. are perfectly