Section 1: Letters

A SHORT LATIN GRAMMAR.

SECTION I.

OF LETTERS.

1. GRAMMAR is the art of speaking or writing properly.

2. There are four parts of grammar: Letters, Syllables, Words, and Sentences.

3. Letters make a syllable, syllables a word, words a sentence.

4. The letters in Latin are twentv-two: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, (j), l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, (v,) x, y, z.

5. Letters are either vowels or consonants.

6. A vowel is a letter that may be pronounced alone, as a. A consonant is a letter that cannot be pronounced without a vowel, as b, c.

7. There are six vowels, a, e, i, o, u, y; of which are formed five diphthongs, ae, oe, au, ei, eu.

8. C before e, ae, oe, i; also t before i and another vowel, is pronounced like s.

9. Four of the consonants are called liquids, l, m, n, r.

10. Three are called double consonants, j, x, z.

11. The rest are called mutes, b, c, d, f, g, h, p, q, s, t, v.

12. A syllable is a vowel or diphthong, either single or pronounced with a consonant.

13. A word is the sign of a thought, and part of a sentence or speech.

14. A sentence is several words put together.

15. There are seven sorts of words, four of which are declinable, Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Participle: Three indeclinable, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction.