[The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown]@TWC D-Link bookThe Grammar of English Grammars CHAPTER III 39/68
"All participles _are compound_ in their meaning and office."-- _Ib._, p.
79. VERBS.--"Verbs express, not only _the state_ or _manner of being_, but, likewise, all the different _actions_ and _movements_ of all creatures and things, whether animate or inanimate."-- _Ib._, p.62.
"It can be easily shown, that from the noun and verb, all the other parts of speech have sprung.
Nay, more.
_They_ may even be reduced to _one_.
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