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Rh sonant would be eclipsed: e.g.,, our daily bread; , Oisin went to "the land of the young."

The is sometimes omitted when the previous word ends in : as, or , at the fair.

(b) Prepositions (except and ) ending in a vowel prefix  to the possessive adjectives, his, her, or their; and , our; , with his mother; , from our country.

The Insertion of.

(a) The article prefixes to a masculine noun beginning with a vowel in the nominative and accusative singular: as, the father.

(b) If a noun begins with  followed by a vowel, or by, , or , the is replaced by  after the article in the nom. and acc. feminine sing. and the genitive masculine, and sometimes in the dative singular of both genders, as, the eye; , (the) house of the priest, i.e.; the priest’s house; , they are coming from the hunt.

(c) This replacing of by  occurs after the words, one; , old; and other words ending in , as , one hunt.