Note 125 — Chapter V · SOME RHETORICAL ASPECTS OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES
Reading edition
Compare the following passage by Carl Sandburg in “Trying to Write,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 186, No. 3 (September, 1950), p. 33: “I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.”