Enough has been given to prove that the adjective combines itself with the sub stantive, the verb, and the pronoun ; that the combinations thus

produced are numerous, afford concentrated modes of convey ing ideas, and oftentimes happy terms of expression. Varied as the adjective is in its changes, it has no compara A Chippewa cannot say, that one substance is tive inflection. hotter or colder than another ; or of

two or more substances

unequally heated, that this or that is the hottest or coldest, with And it is accord out employing adverbs or accessory adjectives.

of ingly by adverbs and accessory adjectives that the degrees Pemmaudlzzlwin is a very good comparison are expressed. substantive

expression,

indicating

the

tenor

Nem bimmaud-izziwin, my tenor of life win, thy tenor of

life.

;

of being or

life.

Ke bimmaud-izzi-

To form the positive degree, minno,

d good, and mudjee, bad, is introduced between the pronoun and the verb, thus Ne minno pimmaud-izziwin, my good tenor To of life ; Ne mudjee pimmaud-izziwin, thy bad tenor of life. :

c nstitute the comparative degree, nahwudj^ more, is prefixed to

the adjective. it

When the adjective is preceded by the adverb,

assumes a negative form. 4.

Pronouns.

Pronouns are buried, if we may so say, in the

structure of the verb.

In tracing them back, to their primitive

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forms, through the almost infinite variety of modifications which they assume in connection with the verb, substantive, and ad jective, it will facilitate analysis to group them into preformative and subformative classes ; terms which have been