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Position of the article. 
1. All the goods were confiscated. The ship took all day 
to load. 
2. lloth the accounts ivere rectißed. They returned us both 
•aje current s. 
3. Double the surrt. 
4. Half the profit was lost. Half an hour. 
5. Mang a man has been ruined at cards. 
6. Huch a person deserves no pity. 
7. Ho important a man as . . . 
PART IV. 
The Adjective. 
neither number, gender, nor case. They 
quality, quantity and dis- 
Adjectives have 
may be divided into three elasses viz 
tinction. 
Adjectives of quality denote the quality of the things 
indicated by the noun; as brown, good, short. 
Adjectives of quantity 'denote the number of things 
indicated by the Noun; as orte, rtiany etc. 
Among adjectives denoting quantity we may distinguish: 
1. Definite numeral adjectives which indicate a special num 
ber; as five, seveh, twenty, ftfty. 
These are divided into Cardinal and ordinal: 
a) Cardinal numbers denote the exact number; as one, two, 
thirtecn, etc. 
b) Ordinal numbers denote the Order; as first, third, se- 
venth, fifteenth. 
2. Indefinite numeral adjectives do not denote any special 
number; as all, some, any, few, mang, othcr, another, several, etc. 
3. Distributive numeral adjectives refer individually to a 
number of objects, they are: each, every, cither, neither. They always 
refer to nouns in the singulär number. 
Distiuguishing adjectives point out or Iimit the signi- 
fication of the noun; as this, that, these, those. 
This (sing.) 1 . .... 
These (plural) j donote somethmg immediately near the Speaker. 
That (sing.) 1 , 
Those (plural) j denote somethmg at a distance. 
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Indefinite numeral adjectives may be called indefinite 
adjective pronouns, and distributive numeral adjectives 
may be called distributive adjective pronouns when they 
have a pronominal rather than an adjectival use. All the 
crew mutinied. The whole cargo was lost. (The cotton was quite 
jjpoiled.)