the adjective. it

When the adjective is preceded by the adverb,

assumes a negative form. 4.

Pronouns.

Pronouns are buried, if we may so say, in the

structure of the verb.

In tracing them back, to their primitive

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forms, through the almost infinite variety of modifications which they assume in connection with the verb, substantive, and ad jective, it will facilitate analysis to group them into preformative and subformative classes ; terms which have been

already include the pronominal prefixes and admit of the further distinction of separable

made use of, and which suffixes.

They

and inseparable pronouns.

By separable is intended those forms

which have a meaning by themselves, and are thus distinguished from the inflective and subformative pronouns, and pronominal particles ; significant only in connection with another word.

Of the first class are the personal pronouns nee (I), kee (thou), and wee, or o (he or she), which are declined, to form the plu ral persons, by neen owind, keen owau, ween owau. The plural of the possessive mine, or my, in the inclusive, is made by k the pronominal sign of the second person, and the usual sub stantive inflection in

w /, with a terminal d. The letter o is

a mere connective, without meaning. The second person is rendered plural by the particle, au instead of win. The third

The examples person has its plural in the common sign of w. cited embrace the mode of distinguishing the person, number, or what is deemed its technical equivalent, the mutations words e., undergo, not to mark the distinctions