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special particles, which are placed after the verbal root; [86 to 89]

(v) That, although a noun or an adjective of quality may be used, as a verb, and vice-versa, still we find, in general, quite distinct, all the parts of speech, such as: noun, adjective, pronoun, verb, adverb, postposition (prep.), con- junction and interjection; [37, 95, 106]

(vi) That predicative roots are entirely distinct from demonstrative ones, and that they are never confounded in their applications.

(vi) That in derivative or compound-words it is always easy to make the decomposition of the radical and of the formative elements, although there may occur frequent euphonical letters.

—Therefore, we considor these facts and other which were presented before, as a proof, quite sufficient, that the Brasilian speech ought to be rightly classed, as belonging to the family of agglutinative tongues.