Prefix five adjectives to each of the following nouns.
Shrubs, wilderness, beggar, cattle, cloud.
Write ten sentences with modified subjects, using in each two or more of
the following adjectives.
A, an, the, heroic, one, all, many, every, either, first, tenth, frugal,
great, good, wise, honest, immense, square, circular, oblong, oval, mild,
virtuous, universal, sweet, careless, fragrant.
Write five sentences with modified subjects, each of which shall contain
one of the following words as a subject.
Chimney, hay, coach, robber, horizon.
_An_ and _a_ are forms of the same word, once spelled _an_, and meaning
_one_. After losing something of this force, _an_ was still used before
vowels and consonants alike; as, _an eagle, an ball, an hair, an use_.
Still later, and for the sake of ease in speaking, the word came to have
the two forms mentioned above; and an was retained before letters having
vowel sounds, but it dropped its _n_ and became _a_ before letters having
consonant sounds. This is the present usage.
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