Essentials of English GrammarScholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1988 - 290 pages |
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... present and past . He accommodates the time which does not yet exist by the auxiliaries " will " and " shall . ” Henry Lester Smith , in his One Hundred Fifty Years of Grammar Textbooks ( 1946 ) , points out that of the books he studied ...
... present and past . He accommodates the time which does not yet exist by the auxiliaries " will " and " shall . ” Henry Lester Smith , in his One Hundred Fifty Years of Grammar Textbooks ( 1946 ) , points out that of the books he studied ...
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... present tense ( in the subjunctive , and the plural and first sing . of the indicative ) are the same with one another , and with that simplest form of the verb which we call the root . And the present participle and participial ...
... present tense ( in the subjunctive , and the plural and first sing . of the indicative ) are the same with one another , and with that simplest form of the verb which we call the root . And the present participle and participial ...
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... present and preterit of do ( 272 ) . These are the real verbs in the little phrases I do give and I did give ; and the infinitive or verbal noun ( 236 ) give is their object : I do give , for example , strictly means ' I do or perform ...
... present and preterit of do ( 272 ) . These are the real verbs in the little phrases I do give and I did give ; and the infinitive or verbal noun ( 236 ) give is their object : I do give , for example , strictly means ' I do or perform ...
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