 Natural language may manifest ontology also in its syntactic categories, which often appear to reflect ontological categories. Thus, verbs are generally taken to reflect the category of events (Szabó 2015), and adjectives the category of tropes or particularized properties (Williams 1953; Strawson 1959). Syntactic categories do not strictly correlate with ontological categories, though. Be in a hurry, be hurried, and hurry all are predicates seemingly standing for the same property, but based on the lexical content of a noun, an adjective, and a verb, respectively. Another, mere tendency of a correlation is that of the syntactic mass-count distinction with the distinction between stuff and individuals  (§3.3).