Essentials of English GrammarUniversity of Alabama Press, 1964 - 387 Seiten A classic of English grammar, Essentials of English Grammar provides a common ground for the traditionalist and the structural or descriptive linguist. Jespersen's work provides insight into the fundamental concepts that underlie the linguistic approach, but at the same time the foundation of the traditional approach is retained. |
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... auxiliary have + the second participle : I have written , he has written , etc. , and the Pluperfect , formed by the preterit of the same auxiliary and the second participle : I had written , he had written , etc. 66 These tense ...
... auxiliary have + the second participle : I have written , he has written , etc. , and the Pluperfect , formed by the preterit of the same auxiliary and the second participle : I had written , he had written , etc. 66 These tense ...
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... auxiliary . The former ( which is purely literary ) is fully inflected ( he wills , willed , inf . ( to ) will , willing ) , and can take an ordinary object : Hamlet wishes to will , but never wills anything . Whatever God wills is holy ...
... auxiliary . The former ( which is purely literary ) is fully inflected ( he wills , willed , inf . ( to ) will , willing ) , and can take an ordinary object : Hamlet wishes to will , but never wills anything . Whatever God wills is holy ...
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... auxiliary which does not imply volition . The desire for clearness is also respon- sible for the growing use of the unmistakable expression for future time is going to , and similarly for the frequency of has to and is to where formerly ...
... auxiliary which does not imply volition . The desire for clearness is also respon- sible for the growing use of the unmistakable expression for future time is going to , and similarly for the frequency of has to and is to where formerly ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER I | 15 |
CHAPTER II | 22 |
EVOLUTION OF THE SOUNDSYSTEM | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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adjectives adjunct adverbs amorphous sentences auxiliary barks CHAPTER chiefly colloquial combinations Compare compounds connexion consonant construction corresponding definite denote Dickens diphthongs distinction English examples expressed felt fool French frequent genitive gerund grammatical H. W. Fowler idea indefinite article indicated indirect object infinitive interrogative intransitive Jane Austen John kind king lady language live look married mass-words meaning mentioned names natural negative never nexus nexus-substantives Note one's originally participle passive perfect phonetic pluperfect plural possessive pronoun possible predicative prepositional group present preterit primary pronouns prop-word question reference regard relative clause relative pronoun secondary seen sense set phrases Similarly singular sometimes sound speak speaker speech spelling stantive stress substantive superlative syllable tendency tertiary Thackeray thing third person thou transitive verbs verb voiceless vowel woman word-order words writing