"Adnoun" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... comprehension, or to determine their extension. Those which effect the former object, are called adjectives, or attributes; and those which effect the latter, restrictives. It is not, in all cases, easy to determine to which of these classes an adnoun should be referred. Words which express simply the qualities of nouns, are adjectives; and such as denote their situation or number, ...
— English Grammar in Familiar Lectures • Samuel Kirkham |
