Essentials of English GrammarScholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1988 - 290 pages |
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... thing is true about something , there must be in every sentence two parts or members : one naming the thing about which we make our declaration or assertion , and one expressing what we declare or assert of the thing named . Thus , in ...
... thing is true about something , there must be in every sentence two parts or members : one naming the thing about which we make our declaration or assertion , and one expressing what we declare or assert of the thing named . Thus , in ...
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... thing was a bird , and the thing is defined or named as being what lay there . The predicate - verb was has no other subject than what lay there . And these words are equivalent to the thing lying there a noun with an adjective ...
... thing was a bird , and the thing is defined or named as being what lay there . The predicate - verb was has no other subject than what lay there . And these words are equivalent to the thing lying there a noun with an adjective ...
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... thing to which the action expressed by the infinitive belongs , the one most concerned with it . And this possessive ... thing ; they insisted on his following them ; he knew of my having been left out ; are equivalent to it was a lucky ...
... thing to which the action expressed by the infinitive belongs , the one most concerned with it . And this possessive ... thing ; they insisted on his following them ; he knew of my having been left out ; are equivalent to it was a lucky ...
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