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Korean Grammar from Ju(1910) to Lee(1956) can be classified into three systems: analytic, synthetic, and eclectic systems. In all of these systems, same inflectional suffixes of predicates were described over and over again. For example, Choe(1937) who claimed an eclectic system described suffixes of predicates repeatedly three times along with verbs, adjectives, and copulas. This kind of redundancy was solved in Heo(1983) by establishing a system of morphology which describes suffixes of predicates only once. Considering the relationship between parts of speech and minimal unit of syntax, I think that an analytic system reflected the function of inflectional suffixes in syntax relatively well, but synthetic and eclectic systems couldn't. If we reflect the function of inflectional suffixes in a grammar, the grammar which has an analytic system in syntax and a synthetic system in morphology will be desirable. But if we consider that an ultimate goal of a grammar explains the structures and functions of sentences, the grammar which accounts for syntax well is rather better than one which explains morphology well. In that point, among grammars from Ju(1910) to Lee(1956), I think that an analytic system is better than a synthetic system.