Essentials of English GrammarScholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1988 - 290 pages |
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William Dwight Whitney. 453 ] PARTICIPLES AND PARTICIPLE - PHRASES . 219 e . After had followed by a word of ... participle ; the other , formed in a variety of ways , we called the PAST or the PASSIVE participle . These are names only of ...
William Dwight Whitney. 453 ] PARTICIPLES AND PARTICIPLE - PHRASES . 219 e . After had followed by a word of ... participle ; the other , formed in a variety of ways , we called the PAST or the PASSIVE participle . These are names only of ...
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... participles have the same modifiers which they take in their more independent uses ; but in the perfect verb - phrases , with the auxiliary have , the passive participle loses its peculiar character , and becomes like the present ...
... participles have the same modifiers which they take in their more independent uses ; but in the perfect verb - phrases , with the auxiliary have , the passive participle loses its peculiar character , and becomes like the present ...
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... participles and participle - phrases are used with the utmost freedom appositively ( 376 ) , or with the construction of an adjective more loosely attached to the noun qualified by it . For example : she , dying , gave it to me ; having ...
... participles and participle - phrases are used with the utmost freedom appositively ( 376 ) , or with the construction of an adjective more loosely attached to the noun qualified by it . For example : she , dying , gave it to me ; having ...
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