Essentials of English GrammarScholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1988 - 290 pages |
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... adjective , 351 −2 ; verbs taking such , 353 ; predicate adjective , and adverb , 354 ; adverbial predicate , 355 ; agreement and rules , 356 – 7 . OBJECT OF THE VERB , 358-68 : transitive verb and its object , 358–9 ; intransitives ...
... adjective , 351 −2 ; verbs taking such , 353 ; predicate adjective , and adverb , 354 ; adverbial predicate , 355 ; agreement and rules , 356 – 7 . OBJECT OF THE VERB , 358-68 : transitive verb and its object , 358–9 ; intransitives ...
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William Dwight Whitney. EXERCISES TO CHAPTER VIL ON ADJECTIVES . To parse an adjective , we have to tell first whether it is an ordinary adjective ( " adjective of quality " ) , or whether it is a pronominal adjective , a numeral , or an ...
William Dwight Whitney. EXERCISES TO CHAPTER VIL ON ADJECTIVES . To parse an adjective , we have to tell first whether it is an ordinary adjective ( " adjective of quality " ) , or whether it is a pronominal adjective , a numeral , or an ...
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... adjective also may always be turned into the predicate of a descriptive clause . And it is quite impossible to draw a distinct line between the attributive and the appositive use ... adjectives , and inflect 378 ] 169 APPOSITIVE ADJECTIVE .
... adjective also may always be turned into the predicate of a descriptive clause . And it is quite impossible to draw a distinct line between the attributive and the appositive use ... adjectives , and inflect 378 ] 169 APPOSITIVE ADJECTIVE .
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LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR 115 pp 15 | 1 |
NOUNS 10848 pp 4665 | 46 |
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abbreviation action added adjective or noun adverb qualifies adverb-clause adverbial objective antecedent appositive adjective assertion attributive adjective auxiliary belonging bird called case-form chapter co-ordinate combination complete complex sentences compound conjunctions connecting words construction defined dependent clause derivative described direct object English Grammar English Language especially example Exercise expressed factitive genitive give given hence horse imperative implies inflection interjections interrogative interrogative words intransitive joined kind language Maetzner manner meaning nominative noun or pronoun nouns and adjectives objective predicate parsing passive past participle plural possessive predicate adjective predicate noun present participle preterit pronominal adjective qualifies a verb qualifying a noun relation relative relative pronoun seen shines signify simple sentences singular sometimes speak speech stand subject and predicate subjunctive substantive-clause suffix tence tenses thee thou tion tive transitive verb usually verb-phrases Whitney William Dwight Whitney