Thus began the long tradition of trying to make the Germanic square peg of English fit into the round hole of Latin. This is why, by the way, all our grammar words are from Latin words: NOUN from Latin ‘nomen’ = “name” VERB from Latin ‘verbum’ = “word”

And: SENTENCE, ADJECTIVE, TENSE, SUBJECT, PREDICATE, PARTICIPLE, PREPOSITION t.co/jZBsJguN4z

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