At 03:34 PM 7/26/2006, Phil Bralich wrote: >If you think that there is room for ATEG to actually change a term >like that you are likely to be in for a surprise. Parts of Speech >is not an error. It is not meant to cover phrases and clause and >sentence types nor should you have a more precise term for all of >them other than grammar terminology. What you always have and >cannot realistically change are the parts of speech, the sentence >roles and sentence types. DD: For this late joiner, retired Latin teacher, please elucidate. I count 9 parts of speech, the usual 8 in Latin plus the article. {Noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, interjection, conjunction, preposition + article} The roles I think follow such things as Subject (nominative), Objects (Sometimes accusative, dative or occasionally something else.), verbal, modifiers, link words, but I am not all that sure of the official paradigm for the rest of the roles. Sentence types seem to me to be interrogative, declarative, imperative, then I am lost. { Simple, Compound, Complex?} A little help on this would be appreciated. To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/