Stucture of the English SentenceAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 244 pages |
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absolute phrase adverb adverbial clause adverbial modifier Analyze the following anticipative subject Bagehot base-word Bolles Boyesen Burroughs called Carlyle CHAPTER clause modifies clause of degree clause of manner complex-compound sentence compound sentence connective construction coördinating dependent proposition Dickens direct object ellipsis elliptical Emerson English equivalent example Exercise expression following sentences frequently Froude George Eliot gerund grammatical group of words heart hence Higginson Holmes Howells idea independent element infinitive phrase Introductory Word Irving J. F. Clarke J. L. Allen James ject jective Kipling Lewis Carroll Longfellow Lord Lowell Macaulay meaning mind Motley nature never noun clause omitted participial phrase participle prepositional phrase Prescott principal proposition question Quincey R. H. Dana relation relative pronoun restrictive adjective clause Ruskin sentence-element sentences containing sometimes Stevenson subjective complement subordinating conjunction supply tell temporal clause tence thing thought tion transitive verb usually Webster