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 the nominative case preceded by the article, i.e., if the noun be feminine, the aspirates and the  prefixes ; (2), that nouns beginning with, preceded by the preposition without the article, often resist aspiration. The rules given here and below are based on a very large number of examples, only a small portion of which can be quoted.

appears generally in the pronominal form,, which is contracted to.

followed by the article and plural noun prefixes to the article, e.g.,

Before verbal nouns beginning with a consonant it becomes, if the word immediately preceding it ends in a consonant, e.g., , but if the word ends in a vowel the ag completely disappears, e.g., ; before verbal nouns beginning with a vowel it becomes and unites with the verbal noun to form a single word, if the preceding word ends in a vowel, e g., ; but if the preceding word ends in a consonant it remains , e.g.,.

compounded with pronouns takes the following forms,, , , , , , We should write ,  to be quite accurate, but it was thought better to avoid special forms of spelling in words whose pronunciation is probably well-known to the reader. The initial is frequently omitted.

combined with possessive pronouns becomes, at my; (before vowels),  (before consonants), at thy;  or , at his, hers, theirs; , at our; , at your.

, followed by the article and noun in the singular, eclipses. If the noun begins with or  it aspirates.