Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... limiting or restricting the meaning of the word health . Health is a noun . Yesterday is an adverb limiting the application of the verb as regards time . 66. In parsing a word , our first business is to refer it to its proper class ...
... limiting or restricting the meaning of the word health . Health is a noun . Yesterday is an adverb limiting the application of the verb as regards time . 66. In parsing a word , our first business is to refer it to its proper class ...
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... limiting nouns : eg . that , what . In the sentence , ' I like that book , ' that is an adjective : in ' I like that , ' it is a substitute for a noun ( though we might also regard it as an adjective with a noun understood , just as we ...
... limiting nouns : eg . that , what . In the sentence , ' I like that book , ' that is an adjective : in ' I like that , ' it is a substitute for a noun ( though we might also regard it as an adjective with a noun understood , just as we ...
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... limiting the noun book ; the second that as a demonstrative pronoun ; and the third that as a relative . It is true that the substitution of which for the second that would still make sense , and the application of the first of our two ...
... limiting the noun book ; the second that as a demonstrative pronoun ; and the third that as a relative . It is true that the substitution of which for the second that would still make sense , and the application of the first of our two ...
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... limiting the application of the name , and at the same time takes an object his patients , just as the verb in its finite forms would take as an object his patients : e.g. ' He healed his patients . ' Why are beginners inclined to ...
... limiting the application of the name , and at the same time takes an object his patients , just as the verb in its finite forms would take as an object his patients : e.g. ' He healed his patients . ' Why are beginners inclined to ...
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... limiting adjectives , with these four words we can mark eight distinctions : viz . , ( putting initial letters to represent the words ) W , GW , OW , RW , GOW , GRW , ORW , GORW , and for these eight distinctions we should need eight ...
... limiting adjectives , with these four words we can mark eight distinctions : viz . , ( putting initial letters to represent the words ) W , GW , OW , RW , GOW , GRW , ORW , GORW , and for these eight distinctions we should need eight ...
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action adjective Adjuncts adverb alphabet antecedent application apposition auxiliary verb called CHAPTER complete Complex Sentence compound conjugation conjunction consonants construction dative denote derivation diphthongs distinction ellipsis employed English Grammar English language English origin English words Etymology examples express feminine following sentences following words French gender genitive German Gerund Give Greek horse illustrate Imperative Mood Indefinite indicative Indirect Object infinitive inflexion Intransitive Keltic language Latin words letters limiting mark meaning modern English neuter Norman noun or pronoun occur Old English Parse passive Past Participle Past Tense Periodic Sentences person phrase plural possessive predicate prefix preposition present principal clause pronunciation question reader relative pronoun represented Roman sentence contains signifies Sing singular sometimes sonant sound speak speech Strong Verbs style subjunctive mood subordinate clause suffix superlative surd syllable Syntax Teutonic thing thou town transitive verb vocabulary vowel vowel-sounds write