mas'culine (gender), Lat. masculus, male: the gender of a noun describing a person of the male sex.

mode. See mood.

mood, Lat. modus, through Fr. mode, manner: a grammatical form denoting the style of predication.

neu'ter (gender), Lat. neuter, neither: the gender of a noun denoting an object without life.

nom'inative (case), Lat. nominativus, from nomen, a name: that form which a noun has when it is the subject of a verb.

noun, Lat. nomen, a name, through Fr. nom: a name-word, the name of anything.

num'ber, Lat. numerus, through Fr. nombre, number: a grammatical form expressing one or more than one of the objects named by a noun or pronoun.

ob'ject, Lat. ob and jacere, to set before: that toward which an activity is directed or is considered to be directed.

objec'tive (case), Lat. objectivus, from ob and jacere: the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition.

parse, Lat. pars, a part: to point out the several parts of speech in a sentence and their relation to one another.