The Problem With Latin Concepts for English Grammar

English nouns don't work that way. For the most part, they don't change no matter how they're used in a sentence. English relies on word order, not suffixes. William Bullockar continued that same approach as he examined verbs, participles and other parts of speech. The application of Latin concepts to English was so strong that later grammarians tried to change English to make it fit the Latin model better.