Parts of utterances and their constructions

This chapter focuses on syntax. The term suntaxis was a compound with the meaning of ‘arrangement together’, which referred, in the context of language, to the arrangement of words in utterances. To study how they were arranged together was to study the connections between one part and another within utterances as wholes. The noun and verb are essential for the completion of an utterance. Others are successively related to them: a pronoun, for example, is a word that can be substituted, with the same role in an utterance, for a noun. The list of the parts of an utterance ended with the conjunction, which is a type of word that can join any of the others. Another type of word includes forms of two different parts of an utterance. These are the interrogatives, which are rationally either ‘nominal’ or ‘adverbial’.