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Dialogue
1 Intro| simplest combinations of nouns and verbs, require a difficult 2 Soph| STRANGER: One of them is called nouns, and the other verbs.~THEAETETUS: 3 Soph| STRANGER: A succession of nouns only is not a sentence, 4 Soph| more than of verbs without nouns.~THEAETETUS: I do not understand 5 Soph| that a mere succession of nouns or of verbs is not discourse.~ 6 Soph| until verbs are mingled with nouns; then the words fit, and 7 Soph| by connecting verbs with nouns; and therefore we say that 8 Soph| being, such a combination of nouns and verbs is really and