OF THE ADVERB.

Cap. 11.

1. A word impersonal is q_uhi_lk in al formes of speach keepes one face,

and this is adverb or conjunction.

2. An adverb is a word adhering mast com_m_onlie w_i_th a verb with one

face in al moodes, tymes, nu_m_beres and persones; as, I leve hardlie,

thou leves hardlie; I did leve hardlie; I have leved hardlie; I had

leved hardlie; I wil leave hardlie; leve he hardlie; God forbid he leve

hardlie.

3. Our men confoundes adverbes of place, q_uhi_lk the south

distinguishes as wel as the latin, and therfoer let us not shame to

learne.

4. They use quher, heer, ther, for the place in q_uhi_lk; quhence,

hence, thence, for the place from quhilk; quhither, hither, thither, for

the place to q_uhi_lk; as, quher dwel you? quhence cum you? quhither goe

you?

5. They also distinguish wel in, into, and unto: in, they use with the

place quher; into, with the thing quhither; and unto, for how far; as,

our father, q_uhi_lk art in heavin, admit us into heavin, and lift us

from the earth unto heavin.

6. Heer, becaus sum nounes incurre into adverbes, let us alsoe noat

their differences.

7. First no and not. Noe is a noun, nullus in latin, and in our tongue

alwayes precedes the substantive quhilk it nulleth; as, noe man, noe

angle, noe god.

8. Not is an adverb, non in latin, and in our tong followes the verb

that it nulleth; as, heer not, grant not; I heer not, I grant not; I wil

not heer, I wil not grant.

9. Ane, in our idiom, and an. Ane is a noun of nu_m_ber, in latin unus;

an a particule of determination preceding a voual, as we have said cap.

3, sect. 4.

10. Thee and the. Thee is the accusative of thou; as, thou loves God,

and God loves thee. The is the determined not of a noun, of q_uhi_lk we

spak cap. 3, sect. 3.

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