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A verb is a composite sound with a meaning, indicative of time, no part of which has a meaning by itself—just as in nouns. Man or white does not signify time, but walks and has walked connote present and past time respectively.
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A case(or inflection)of a noun or verb is that which signifies either of or to a thing and the like;or gives the sense of one or many e.g. men and man; or else it may depend on the delivery, for example question and command. Walked? and Walk! are verbal cases of this kind.
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A phraseThere is no exact English equivalent of this meaning of λόγος, which has been used already in 7 above without explanation. Statement and proposition also cover part of its meaning. is a composite sound with a meaning, some parts of which mean something by themselves.
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It is not true to say that every phrase is made up of nouns and verbs, e.g. the definition of manProbably one of the two definitions given in the Topics, a two-footed land animal and an animal amenable to reason.; but although it is possible to have a phrase without verbs, yet some part of it will always have a meaning of its own, for example, Cleon in Cleon walks.
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A phrase may be a unit in two ways; either it signifies one thing or it is a combination of several phrases. The unity of the Iliad, for instance, is due to such combination, but the definition of man is one phrase because it signifies one thing.
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Nouns are of two kinds. There is the simple noun, by which I mean one made up of parts that have no meaning, like γῆ, and there is the compound noun.
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These may be made up either of a part which has no meaning and a part which has a meaning—though it does not have its meaning in the compound—or of two parts both having a meaning.
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A compound noun may be triple and quadruple and multiple, e.g. many of the bombastic names like Hermocaicoxanthus.A compound of the names of three rivers, Hermus, Caicus, and Xanthus. . . .
