Allow, learn, leave, let, loan, locate, accede, accredit, credit, arise, rise, captivate, depreciate, deprecate, impugn, impute, like, love, antagonize, champion, calculate, bring, carry, fetch, claim, assert, allege, maintain, admit, confess, demand, hire, let, lease, materialize, plead, argue, state, stop, transpire, accept, except, advertise, advise, affect, effect, alleviate, relieve, augur, compare to, compare with, contrast, construe, construct, convince, convict, detect, discriminate, disclose, discover, dominate, domineer, drive, ride, eliminate, elicit, insure, secure, esteem, estimate, expose, expound, investigate, persuade, convince, predicate, predict, prescribe, proscribe, purpose, propose, repulse, start, suspect, expect, anticipate.

[109] See Note to Teacher, p. 41.

CHAPTER VI.

OF ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

AN ADJECTIVE is a word joined by way of description or limitation to a noun or a pronoun.

An ADVERB is a word joined by way of limitation or emphasis to a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

VULGARISMS.[110]—­Every educated person is expected to know the correct use of the following words:—­

GOOD, WELL.—­Good is an adjective:  the adverb corresponding to it is well.  We say, “He had a good sleep;” “He slept well.” Well is sometimes an adjective, as in “You look well.”

LIKELY, PROBABLY, LIKE.—­Likely is now used as an adjective only, except in the phrase “As likely as not;” ad the corresponding adverb is probably.  We say, “He is likely to come;” “He will probably come.” Like as an adjective means “similar,” as, “Men of like excellence;” “He looks like his grandfather;” “He was a man of like passions as we are.”  In the sense of “in the same manner as” like is followed by a noun or a pronoun in the objective case, and is called by some an adverb, by others a preposition:  as, “He talks like her.”

LESS, FEWER, SMALLER.—­Less refers to quantity, fewer to number, smaller to size.

MOST, ALMOST.—­Most denotes “the greatest number, quantity, or degree.”  It is always superlative and never means “nearly,” which is the proper meaning of almost.  We say, “Most of the boys are here; the time has almost come.”

NEAR, NEARLY.—­Near is an adjective; the corresponding adverb is nearly.

PLENTY is now in good use as a noun only, as “Plenty of corn and wine."[111] Shakespeare used the word as an adjective in “Reasons as plenty as blackberries,” but this use is obsolete.  The use of plenty as an adverb, as “The food is plenty good enough,” is a vulgarism.

SOME, SOMEWHAT, SOMETHING.—­Some is an adjective, as, “Some water;” “Some brighter clime.” Somewhat is an adverb, as, “He is somewhat better.”  “Somewhat” is occasionally used as a noun, as, “Somewhat of doubt remains,” but in this sense something is more common.