words into syllables.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 8. (17.) “Spelling is the art of expressing a word by its proper letters, and rightly dividing it into syllables.”—­Bullions’s Princ. of E. Gram., p. 2. (18.) “Spelling is the art of expressing a word by its proper letters.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 23; Sanborn’s, p. 259. (19.) “A syllable is a sound either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or part of a word.”—­Lowth, p. 5; Murray, 21; Ingersoll, 6; Fisk, 11; Greenleaf, 20:  Merchant, 9; Alger, 12; Bucke, 15; Smith, 118; et al. (20.) “A Syllable is a complete Sound uttered in one Breath.”—­British Gram., p. 32; Buchanan’s, 5. (21.) “A syllable is a distinct sound, uttered by a single impulse of the voice.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 20. (22.) “A Syllable is a distinct sound forming the whole of a word, or so much of it as can be sounded at once.”—­Bullions, E. Gr., p. 2. (23.) “A syllable is a word, or part of a word, or as much as can be sounded at once.”—­Picket’s Gram., p. 10. (24.) “A diphthong is the union of two Vowels, both of which are pronounced as one:  as in bear and beat.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 15. (25.) “A diphthong consists of two vowels, forming one syllable; as, ea, in beat.”—­Guy’s Gram., p. 2. (26.) “A triphthong consists of three vowels forming one syllable; as, eau in beauty.”—­Ib. (27.) “But the Triphthong is the union of three Vowels, pronounced as one.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 15. (28.) “What is a Noun Substantive?  A Noun Substantive is the thing itself; as, a Man, a Boy.”—­British Gram., p. 85; Buchanan’s, 26. (29.) “An adjective is a word added to nouns to describe them.”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 1. (30.) “An adjective is a word joined to a noun, to describe or define it.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 51. (31.) “An adjective is a word used to describe or define a noun.”—­Wilcox’s Gram., p. 2. (32.) “The adjective is added to the noun, to express the quality of it”—­Murray’s Gram., 12mo, 2d Ed., p. 27; Lowth, p. 6. (33.) “An adjective expresses the quality of the noun to which it is applied; and may generally be known by its making sense in connection with it; as, ‘A good man,’ ‘A genteel woman.’”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 34. (34.) “An adverb is a word used to modify the sense of other words.”—­Wilcox’s Gram., p. 2. (35.) “An adverb is a word joined to a verb, an adjective, or another adverb, to modify or denote some circumstance respecting it.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 66; Lat.  Gram., 185. (36.) “A Substantive or Noun is a name given to every object which the senses can perceive; the understanding comprehend; or the imagination entertain.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 34. (37.) “GENDER means the distinction of nouns with regard to sex.”—­Bullions,