Note, each of these may be converted; that is, they are only opposed to each other.
4. Mesothesis, the infinitive mood, or the indifference of the verb and noun, it being either the one or the other, or both at the same time, in different relations.
5. Synthesis, the participle, or the community of verb and noun; being and acting at once.
Now, modify the noun by the verb, that is, by an act, and you have—
6. The adnoun, or adjective.
Modify the verb by the noun, that is, by being, and you have—
7. The adverb.
Interjections are parts of sound, not of speech. Conjunctions are the same as prepositions; but they are prefixed to a sentence, or to a member of a sentence, instead of to a single word.
The inflections of nouns are modifications as to place; the inflections of verbs, as to time.
The genitive case denotes dependence; the dative, transmission. It is absurd to talk of verbs governing. In Thucydides, I believe, every case has been found absolute.[2]