THE KNOLISTI VERB. 39 



pronunciation is more prolonged, extended or continued by 

 the final accent and sonancy, and it therefore takes more time 

 to utter these words as verbs than as nouns or adjectives. 



Is the logical action of a verb, in contrast with other parts 

 of speech, comparable to these phonetic characteristics? 



A phrase or collection of words without a verb is nothing 

 but name. It indicates this or that, but it has no " go " to it. 

 With a verb something becomes the souice of the action it 

 names and something the object, and the verb represents what 

 " goes on " and how and when. Thus rec'ord is a name, it is a 

 thing fixed : to record' names a rec'ord in the making. 



Perhaps then ' ' extension " or " continuingness ' ' in time 

 expresses the quality which is common to the mental concep- 

 tion of a verb as a part of the sentence and to the phonetic 

 effect of final accent and sonant consonant. If so, the phe- 

 nomenon is an element of English grammar leading towards 

 clearer expression of thought. 



