AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR:

METHODICAL, ANALYTICAL, AND HISTORICAL.

WITH A TREATISE ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY, PROSODY, INFLECTIONS
AND SYNTAX OF THE ENGLISH TONGUE;

AND NUMEROUS AUTHORITIES CITED IN Order of hISTORICAL

DEVELOPMENT.

BY PROFESSOR MAETZNER,

OF BERLIN.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, WITH THE SANCTION OF THE AUTHOR,

BY CLAIR JAMES GRECE, LL.D.,

FELLOW OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

IN THREE VOLUMES.-VOL. II.

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY.

BOSTON:

ROBERTS, BROTHERS.

1874.

Second Part. The Doctrine of the Joining of Words and

Sentences.

Section the First. The Doctrine of the Joining of Words,

or, of the simple Sentence.

I. The Elements of the Sentence in

their relation to one another.

A. The Subject and its forms

Personal Sentences, The Sub-

ject is 1) a Substantive. 2)

The Adjective used substan-

tively. 3) The Numeral. 4)

Pronouns. 5) The Infinitive.

6) Particles, Members of Sen-

tences, Sentences

Impersonal Sentences..

5

Reduplication of the Subject 16

Anacoluthic Subject.

Omission of the Subject

1) With the imperative 2)

In personal sentences. 3) In

impersonal sentences.

B. The Predicate and its forms

Simple and completed form of

the predicate in general

Elliptic predicate

.

1) The verb of existence

2) Intransitive verbs of mo-

tion

3) Transitive verbs

The Verb according to its

voices, tenses and moods

Voices of the verb.

The Active.

1) be with participle of the

present.

2) Periphrasis by do

The Passive.

1) be with the participle of

the perfect

3) The Temporal Sentence. 116

4) The Causal Sentence . 119

5) The Conditional Sentence 119

a. with if. b. with an. c.

with so, so that. d. with

provided, say, suppose. e.

represented by an inverted

sentence. f. it contains an

exceptional case.

6) The Concessive Sentence 123

a. with though, although.

b. Inverted Dependent Sen-

tences. c. Disjunctive Sen-
tences. d. with a pronoun
or an adverb in a genera-
lized meaning.

7) The Consecutive Sentence 126

8) The Final Sentence. . 127

51

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51

51

53

58

58

2) The combination with am

1) may

and was with regard to

the relation of time.

59

The Imperative

.

130

. 130

133

134

135

C. The Subject and the Predi-

cate in their relation to each