Essentials of English GrammarScholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1988 - 290 pages |
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... thought , is the sentence , in which a predicate is put to the subject ( p . 1 ) , and Whitney's definition is : A sentence is ... the expression of a judgment .... We cannot in the nature of things , make a complete sentence without ...
... thought , is the sentence , in which a predicate is put to the subject ( p . 1 ) , and Whitney's definition is : A sentence is ... the expression of a judgment .... We cannot in the nature of things , make a complete sentence without ...
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... thoughts and judgments . Greene says that " the sentence is the unit of discourse and contains a complete thought " ( p . 11 ) , and he makes the sentence equivalent to language when he says " language is the medium through which we ...
... thoughts and judgments . Greene says that " the sentence is the unit of discourse and contains a complete thought " ( p . 11 ) , and he makes the sentence equivalent to language when he says " language is the medium through which we ...
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... thought of that plan , we say also that plan I had already thought of ; the spoon with which he ate ; the spoon which he ate with . So it comes to seem to us as if thought of and ate with were transitive verbs , and plan and which their ...
... thought of that plan , we say also that plan I had already thought of ; the spoon with which he ate ; the spoon which he ate with . So it comes to seem to us as if thought of and ate with were transitive verbs , and plan and which their ...
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