rammar_ is
useful," &c.

2. The article is not prefixed to proper nouns; as, _Barron_ killed
_Decatur_; except by way of eminence, or for the sake of
distinguishing a particular family, or when some noun is understood;
as, "He is not _a_ Franklin; He is _a_ Lee, or of the family of
_the_ Lees; We sailed down _the_ (river) Missouri."

3. An _adjective_ is frequently placed between the article and the
noun with which the article agrees; as, "A _good_ boy; an
_industrious_ man." Sometimes the adjective precedes the article;
as, "As _great_ a man as Alexander; _Such_ a shame."

4. In referring to many individuals, when we wish to bring each
separately under consideration, the indefinite article is sometimes
placed between the adjective _many_ and a singular noun; as, "Where
_many a rosebud_ rears its blushing head;" "Full _many a flower_ is
born to blush unseen."

5. The definite article _the_ is frequently applied to _adverbs_ in
the comparative or superlative degree; as, "_The more_ I examine it,
_the better_ I like it," "I like this _the least_ of any."

You may proceed and parse the following articles, when you shall have
committed this

SYSTEMATIC ORDER OF PARSING

_The order of parsing an_ Article, is--an article, and why?--definite or
indefinite, and why?--with what noun does it agree?--RULE.

"He is _the_ son of _a_ king."

_The_ is an article, a word prefixed to a noun to limit its
signification--definite, it limits the noun to a particular object--it
belongs to the noun "son," according to

RULE 2. _The definite article_ the _belongs to nouns in the singular or
plural number_.

_A_ is an article, a word placed before a noun to limit its
signification--indefinite, it limits the noun to one of a kind, but to
no particular one--it agrees with "king," agreeably to

RULE 1. _The article_ a _or_ an _agrees with nouns in the singular
number only_.

NOTE. By considering the original meaning of this article, the
propriety of Rule 1, will appear. _A_ or _an_, (formerly written
_ane,)_ being equivalent to _one, any one_, or _some one_, cannot be
prefixed to nouns in the plural number. There is, however, an
exception to this rule. _A_ is placed before a plural noun when any
of the following adjectives come between the article and the noun:
_few, great, many, dozen, hundred, thousand, million_; as, _a_ few