ABSTRACT

In the examples hitherto chosen we have had substantives as primaries, adjectives as adjuncts, and adverbs as subjuncts j and there is certainly some degree of correspondence between the three parts of speech and the three ranks here established. We might even define substantives as words standing habitually as primaries, adjectives as words standing habitually as adjuncts, and adverbs as words standing habitually as subjuncts. But the correspondence is far from complete, as will be evident from the following survey: the two things, word-classes and ranks, really move in two different spheres.