"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message news:gkbuap$1khp$1 at digitalmars.com... > Objects (nouns) have attributes (nouns) and are capable of doing things > (verbs). That should probably be: Objects (nouns) have attributes (adjectives/nouns) and are capable of doing things (verbs). But, of course, adjectives (just like "direct/indirect objects") are themselves nouns.