Essentials of English GrammarScholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1988 - 290 pages |
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... implies a certain known number or body of individuals , from among whom the right one is to be selected or picked out . Thus , if we say who did it ? or what did it ? we do not appear to know anything about the actor ; but which did it ...
... implies a certain known number or body of individuals , from among whom the right one is to be selected or picked out . Thus , if we say who did it ? or what did it ? we do not appear to know anything about the actor ; but which did it ...
Page 87
... implies the quality of length as belonging to the string spoken of ; a longer string implies that , of two strings compared , the one referred to ex- ceeds the other in length ; the longest string implies that , among any number ...
... implies the quality of length as belonging to the string spoken of ; a longer string implies that , of two strings compared , the one referred to ex- ceeds the other in length ; the longest string implies that , among any number ...
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... implies rather a promise : thus , he shall go , rely on me for that ; you shall have it ; and , when emphatic , a determination on the part of the speaker : thus , you shall go ; I exact it of you ; he shall go , in spite of him and of ...
... implies rather a promise : thus , he shall go , rely on me for that ; you shall have it ; and , when emphatic , a determination on the part of the speaker : thus , you shall go ; I exact it of you ; he shall go , in spite of him and of ...
Contents
LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR 115 pp 15 | 1 |
NOUNS 10848 pp 4665 | 46 |
PRONOUNS 14989 pp 6682 | 66 |
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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