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Home Feb. 8, 1911

My dear Francis
Your letter of the 4th came yesterday. I did not use the phrase "Konde ke zhide ke ha," because it introduced a different aspect from all the other phrases, and as I did not want to go into the questions raised without you I omitted the phrase. Let me now analalze the sentence. If we give a sentence, the sentence must have a subject and a predicate, that is, there must be a noun, something spoken of, and a predicate, or verb, which asserts something concerning the noun. All the other examples, had each its noun and verb, and the descriptive suffix was distinct from the verb, that is, not the same word, or a word having the same sound, appeared as suffix and as verb. In the sentence "Konde ke zhide ke ha," the