"Partitive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Nouns partitive, nouns of number, nouns comparative and superlative, and certain adjectives put partitively, require a genitive case, from which also they ...
— The Comic Latin Grammar - A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue • Percival Leigh
... after the preposition de, similar to the ordinary participial or adjectival use, as in the expression: Il n'y a que vous de serieux. Compare "Je n'ai qu'elle de fille" (Moliere, le Medecin malgre lui, II, 4). These, and similar expressions, are an outgrowth of the partitive genitive, usually found after an indefinite: II n'y a rien de nouveau (that is to say, parmi les choses nouvelles). Quelque chose de nouveau. Qu'y a-t-il de nouveau? Cent soldats de prisonniers. Y a-t-il personne d'assez hardi? etc. Compare ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... to be a noun; because the expression may either be elliptical, or have the construction of an adverb: as, "Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved."—2 Cor., xii, 15. Dr. Johnson seems to suppose that the partitive use of these words makes them nouns; as, "They have much of the poetry of Mecaenas, but little of his liberality."—DRYDEN: in Joh. Dict. Upon this principle, however, adjectives innumerable would be made nouns; for we can just as well say, "Some of the poetry,"—"Any of ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... ses ws. Sweet errs in explaining ses as attracted into the genitive by s. It is not a predicate adjective, but a partitive genitive ...
— Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book - with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary • C. Alphonso Smith |
