[Sidenote: _With adjectives, changed to nouns_.]

197. When _the_ is used before adjectives with no substantive
following (Sec. 181 and note), these words are adjectives used as
nouns, or pure nouns; but when _an_ or _a_ precedes such words, they
are always nouns, having the regular use and inflections of nouns; for
example,--

Such are the words _a brave_ should use.--COOPER.

In the great society of wits, John Gay deserves to be _a
favorite_, and to have a good place.--THACKERAY

Only the name of one obscure epigrammatist has been embalmed for
use in the verses of _a rival_.--PEARSON.

Exercise.--Bring up sentences with five uses of the indefinite
article.



HOW TO PARSE ARTICLES.

198. In parsing the article, tell--


(1) What word it limits.

(2) Which of the above uses it has.