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A Handbook of the English Language

Part 4 — CHAPTER XXXVI.

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PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS.

§ 390. Prepositions.—Prepositions are wholly unsusceptible of inflection.

§ 391. Conjunctions.—Conjunctions, like prepositions, are wholly unsusceptible of inflection.

§ 392. Yes, no.—Although not may be considered to be an adverb, nor a conjunction, and none a noun, these two words, the direct categorical affirmative, and the direct categorical negative, are referable to none of the current parts of speech. Accurate grammar places them in a class by themselves.

§ 393. Particles.—The word particle is a collective term for all those parts of speech that are naturally unsusceptible of inflection; comprising, 1, interjections; 2, direct categorical affirmatives; 3, direct categorical negatives; 4, absolute conjunctions; 5, absolute prepositions; 6, adverbs unsusceptible of degrees of comparison; 7, inseparable prefixes.

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