Essentials of English GrammarScholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1988 - 290 pages |
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William Dwight Whitney. 360. But verbs which can take an object in the way here described , and which are therefore ordinarily called transitive , may in English , almost without exception , be used without any expressed object , or ...
William Dwight Whitney. 360. But verbs which can take an object in the way here described , and which are therefore ordinarily called transitive , may in English , almost without exception , be used without any expressed object , or ...
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... objects which are not really so , see below , 390 . 363. The kind of object which we have thus far con- sidered is also called a DIRECT object , because its relation to the " governing " verb is so close and immediate as not to admit ...
... objects which are not really so , see below , 390 . 363. The kind of object which we have thus far con- sidered is also called a DIRECT object , because its relation to the " governing " verb is so close and immediate as not to admit ...
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... object answers to the " accusative " ( compare 139-40 ) . It is put , in the sentence , between the verb and the direct object . The adjectives nigh , near , next , and like , both in adjective and in adverbial use , may be and usually ...
... object answers to the " accusative " ( compare 139-40 ) . It is put , in the sentence , between the verb and the direct object . The adjectives nigh , near , next , and like , both in adjective and in adverbial use , may be and usually ...
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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