Question

Read the excerpts from Samuel Johnson's preface to A Dictionary of the English Language,

Answer 1

In both excerpts, the word structure refers to the the components, or parts, of words.

Explanation:

Many quotations serve no other Thus have I laboured by settling the

purpose, than that of proving the bare orthography, displaying the analogy,

existence of words, and are therefore regulating the structures, and

selected with less scrupulousness ascertaining the signification of

than those which are to teach their English words, to perform all the parts

structures and relations. of a faithful lexicographer. In both excerpts, the word structure refers to -  components, or parts, of words.

So we can say that in both excerpts, the word structure refers to the the components, or parts, of words.

Answer 2

Answer: components, or parts, of words.

Explanation: just took the test and got it right