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to “biggish” 50 —and why—let the devotee of Grammar deter¬ 
mine. 
(3) The participle: e. g., “Harris studied insects destroying 
plants.” 
Syntax in this case remains as in case (2) : “destroying,” 
as an adjective in central clause, expresses (see page 155, 
note) as a quality of insects, what poses as a relation-form¬ 
ing action (compare pp. 153, 154) or activity, while “destroy¬ 
ing,” as a verb in lateral syntax, expresses what poses rather as 
their action-formed relation to what is destroyed. 
Adjective inflection continues as before, except that I do* 
not remember a case of “comparison;” and verbal inflection 
extends to time, while becoming more distinctly recognizable 
in the form of “voice.” 
(4) The subjunctive in adjective function: e. g., “Harris 
studied insects which destroy plants.” 
To this illustration it will perhaps be objected that “destroy” 
is indicative. Having later comment to make on the subject 
of modes, I restrict myself for the moment to noting that, in 
my use of words, no form of the verb, however spelled and 
however pronounced, will be called indicative, unless it is asr 
sertive. How if in the illustration “destroy” is assertive, the 
case in hand is merely that of two self-sufficient judgments. 
These judgments, equally expressible by the separate sentences 
“Harris studied insects” and “Insects destroy plants,” dealing 
both of them with insects and the same ones, advantageously 
reject two thinkings of these insects in favor of a single think¬ 
ing, becoming therefore a continuous mental act expressed by 
a continuous utterance, although they do not become a single 
judgment. This utterance accordingly, as the embodiment of 
two expressional purposes, must rank as a polyphrastic—not 
a monopkrastic—sentence; that is, it must not rank as a single 
sentence, but as two interlocking sentences. In it neither 
“(which) destroy” nor “destroy plants” is adjectively used with 
59 Such are developed by the diminutive suffixes of the Romance 
languages. 
