Essentials of English GrammarScholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1988 - 290 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 37
Page 98
... less with greater crimes . My father gave me honor , yours gave land . The lady is dead upon mine and my master's false accusation . There will a worse come in his place . Ambition makes my little less . CHAPTER VIII . VERBS . 222. We ...
... less with greater crimes . My father gave me honor , yours gave land . The lady is dead upon mine and my master's false accusation . There will a worse come in his place . Ambition makes my little less . CHAPTER VIII . VERBS . 222. We ...
Page 136
... less freely the whole series of qualifying adverbs which the verb takes . On the other hand , adverbs of degree are less used with verbs . Some of the commonest of them , as very and too , even do not go with verbs directly at all ...
... less freely the whole series of qualifying adverbs which the verb takes . On the other hand , adverbs of degree are less used with verbs . Some of the commonest of them , as very and too , even do not go with verbs directly at all ...
Page 171
... Less often , as an appositive adjective : thus , ask at the house next above ; my stay there will be short ; the wall within and that without . Sometimes ( and less properly ) , even as an attributive adjec- tive : thus , the above ...
... Less often , as an appositive adjective : thus , ask at the house next above ; my stay there will be short ; the wall within and that without . Sometimes ( and less properly ) , even as an attributive adjec- tive : thus , the above ...
Contents
LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR 115 pp 15 | 1 |
NOUNS 10848 pp 4665 | 46 |
PRONOUNS 14989 pp 6682 | 66 |
Copyright | |
4 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools - Scholar's Choice Edition William Dwight Whitney No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
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