Lesson II
We may make a sentence with only two words—the name of the thing we speak of and what we say about it:—
John writes.
Birds sing.
Mary sews.
We speak about ‘John.’
We say about him that he ‘writes.’
We speak about ‘birds.’
We say about them that they ‘sing.’
These words, writes, sing, sews, all come out of the same group of words, and the words in that group are the chief words of all, for this reason—we cannot make sense, and therefore cannot make a sentence, without using at least one of them.