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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	word_n	write_v	5,518	5	5.5370	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50880	Accedence commenc't grammar, supply'd with sufficient rules for the use of such (younger or elder) as are desirous, without more trouble than needs to attain the Latin tongue the elder sort especially, with little teaching and their own industry / by John Milton.	Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1669 (1669)	Wing M2088; ESTC R12835	28,608	70

ACCEDENCE Commenc't GRAMMAR Supply'd with sufficient RULES For the use of such Younger or Elder as are desirous without more trouble than needs to attain the LATIN TONGUE The Elder sort especially with little Teaching and their own Industry By JOHN MILTON LONDON Printed for S. S. and are to be sold by John Starkey at the Miter in Fleet-street near Temple-bar 1669. TO THE READER IT hath been long a general complaint not without cause in the bringing up of Youth and still is that the tenth part of mans life ordinarily extended is taken up in learning and that very scarcely the Latin Tongue Which ●…ardy proficience may be attributed to several causes In particular the making two labours of one by learning first the Accedence then the Grammar in Latin ere the Language of those Rules be understood The only remedy of this was to joyn both Books into one and in the English Tongue whereby the long way is much abbreviated and the labour of understanding much more easie A work suppos'd not to have been done formerly or if done not without such difference here in brevity and alteration as may be found of moment That of Grammar touching Letters and Syllables is omitted as learnt before and little different from the English Spelling-book especially since few will be perswaded to pronounce Latin otherwise then thir own English What will not come under Rule by reason of too much variety in Declension Gender or Construction is also here omitted least the course and clearness of method be clog'd with Catalogues instead of Rules or too much interruption between Rule and Rule Which Linaker setting down the various Idiomes of many verbs was fore't to do by Alphabet and therefore though very learned not thought fit to be read in Schools But in such words a Dictionary stor'd with good Authorities will be found the readiest guide Of figurate Construction what is usefull is digested into several Rules of Syntaxis and Prosodie after this Grammar well learnt will not need to be Englisht for him who hath a mind to read it Account might be now givn what addition or alteration from other Grammars hath been here made and for what reason But he who would be short in teaching must not be long in Prefacing The Book it self follows and will declare sufficiently to them who can discern J. M. ACCEDENCE Commenc't GRAMMAR LAtin Grammar is the Art of right understanding speaking or writing Latine observd from them who have spoken or written it best Grammar hath two Parts Right-wording usually call'd Etymologie and right-joyning of words or Syntaxis Etymologie or Right-wording teacheth what belongs to every single word or part of Speech Of Latin SPEECH are Eight General Parts Declin'd Noun Pronoun Verb Participle Undeclin'd Adverb Conjunction Preposition Interjection DEclin'd are those Words which have divers endings as Homo a man hominis of a man Amo I love amas thou lovest Undeclin'd are those words which have but one ending as bene well cum when tum then Nounes Pronounes and Participles are declin'd with Gender Number and Case Verbs as hereafter in the Verb. Of Genders GEnders are three the Masculin Feminin and Neuter The Masculin may be declin'd with this Article Hic as hic Vir a Man The Feminin with this Article Haec as haec Mulier a Woman The Neuter with this Article Hoc as hoc S●…um a Stone Of the Masculin are generally all Nounes belonging to the Male kind as also the Names of Rivers Months and Winds Of the Feminin all Nounes belonging to the Female kind as also the names of Countries Cities Trees some few of the two latter excepted Of Cities as Agragas and Sulmo Masculin Argos Tibur Praen●…ste and such as end in um Neuter Anxur both Of Trees Oleaster and Spinus Masculin but Oleaster is read also Feminin Cic. Verr. 4. Acer siler suber thus robur Neuter And of the Neuter are all Nouns not being proper Names ending in um and many others Some Nouns are of two Genders as hic or haec dies a Day and all such as may be spoken both of Male and Female as hic or haec Parens a Father or Mother some be of three as hic haec and hoc Pelix Happy Of Numbers WOrds Declin'd have two Numbers the Singular and the Plural The Singular speaketh but of one as Lapis a Stone The Plural of more then one as Lapides Stones yet sometimes but of one as Athenae the City Athens Literae an Epistle aedes aedium a House Note that some Nounes have no Singular and some no Plural as the nature of thir signification requires Some are of one Gender in the Singular of another or of two Genders in the Plural as reading will best teach Of Cases NOunes Pronounes and Participles are declin'd with six Endings which are called Cases both in the Singular and Plural Number The Nominative Genitive Dative Accusative Vocative and Ablative The Nominative is the first Case and properly nameth the thing as Liber a Book The Genitive is Englisht with this Sign of 〈◊〉 Libri of a Book The Dative with this Sign to or for as Libro to or for a Book The Accusative hath no sign The Vocative calleth or speaketh to as O Liber O Book and is commonly like the Nominative But in the Neuter Gender the Nominative Accusative and Vocative are like in both Numbers and in the Plural end alwayes in a. The Ablative is Englisht with these Signs in with of for from by and such like as d●… Libro of or from the Book pro Libro for the Book And the Ablative Plural is alwayes like the Dative Note that some Nouns have but one ending throughout all Cases as Frugi nequam nihil and all words of number from three to a hundred a●… quatuor four quinque five c. Some have but one some two some three Cases only in the Singular or Plural as use will best teach Of a Noune A Noune is the Name of a thing as Manus a Hand Do●… a House Bonus Good Pulch●…r Fair. Nounes be Substantives or Adjectives A Noun Substantive is understood by it self as homo a man domus a house An Adjective to be well understood requireth a Substantive to be joyn'd with it as bonus good parvus little which cannot be well understood unless somthing good or little be either nam'd as bonus vir a good man parvus puer a little boy or by use understood as honestum an honest thing boni good men The Declining of Substantives NOunes Substantive have five Declensions or forms of ending thir Cases chiefly distinguisht by the different ending of thir Genitive Singular The first Declension THe first is when the Genitive and Dative singular end in ae c. as in the Example following Singular Plural Nom. Voc. Abl. musa Nom. Voc. musae Gen. Dat. musae Gen. musar um Acc. musam Dat. Abl. mus●…s   Acc. Musas This one word familia joyn'd with pater mater filius or filia