This:

>All things in J, called ENTITIES, are one of the four principal parts of
>speech (verb, noun, adverb, conjunction).

>but then page 13 discusses INFLECTIONS.

is not a contradiction.  The contexts are different.  The entities page 3 
refers are semantic, and inflections are syntactic.

Page 3 is discussing words, page 13 is discussing, for want of a better 
analogy, letters.  (Actually, perhaps a better analogy would be "accents" or 
"diacritics".)

Just as saying "all words in English are either nouns or verbs" and then saying 
"putting an 'E' on the end of a word can change the meaning of the word" is not 
a contradiction, neither are the above statements.  

> I suppose we could consider an inflection an adverb. 

Inflections cannot be adverbs, because adverbs are words.  Inflections are not 
words, they're part of the spelling of a word.  

In English, the letter E is not a word (so it can't be an adverb), but if you 
put it on the end of an existing word, you get a new (possibly undefined) word.

-Dan

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