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deletion A /deletion Substantives are of two Sorts; Proper and Common Names; Proper Names are such as are appropriate to individuals; as the the names of persons and places, such are Thomas, London.

Common Names stand for kinds, of containing many Sorts, or Sorts containing many Individuals, as Animal, Man, which are applied also to Individuals by adding to them articles as we have shewn before.

Proper Names admit neither of Articles nor of the Plural Number unless by a figurative expression, as when conveys in the idea of a Great Conqueror addition one may with underline elegance say /underline /addition an Alexander, or the Alexander of the age or the Thames, that is the River Thames,

In English, the Substantive singular is made Plural for the most part by adding to it an s; or es, where necessary for the Pronounciation; as King, King's, fox, foxes leaf, leaves, in which last and many others the f is changed into a v, to ease the pronounciation, and soften the sound.