Book III
The Written Language ... 184v-206v
Names, Titles, etc. ... 206v-212v
The Arithmetic ... 212v-239
Given these differing formats[[10]] it is clear that Collado is unable to cope adequately with the more complex aspects of the grammar, specifically those syntactic constructions to which Rodriguez devotes almost an entire book.
An analysis of Collado's description and a listing of the portions of Rodriguez' grammar from which material was taken yields the following:
| Collado | Rodriguez | |
| Phonology (3-5) |
Parts of Speech (55-58) Book III (173-179v) | |
| Nouns (6-13) |
Declensions (1-2v) Parts of Speech (59-61) | |
| Adjectives (9-11, 32-33) |
Declensions (2-2v) Conjugations (47-52) Parts of Speech (61-67) | |
| Pronouns (13-18) |
Declensions (2v) Parts of Speech (67-68) | |
| Verbs (18-49) |
Conjugations (6v-54v) Parts of Speech (69-73) Syntax (83v-112v) | |
| Adverbs (49-57) |
Parts of Speech (73v-77) Syntax (113-125) | |
| Prepositions (57-59) |
Parts of Speech (73-73v) Syntax (140-148v) | |
| Conjunctions (59-60) |
Parts of Speech (76-76v) Syntax (130-137) | |
| Exclamations (60-61) |
Parts of Speech (76-76v) Syntax (125-130) | |
| Syntax (61-66) | Book II (83-168) | |
| Arithmetic (66-75) | Book III (212v-239) | |
| Written Language (74-75) | Book III (184v-206v) |
Two aspects of Japanese were not able to be described with any degree of satisfaction by Collado; the adjectives (adjectiva) and the prepositions (praepositio). His difficulties, attributable to the basic structural difference between Latin and Japanese, were compounded by the fact that Rodriguez too was unable to find a satisfactory solution to their description.
With respect to the adjectives, Collado attempts to deal with their functions in the manner appropriate to Latin, that is as a sub-class of