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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... hand bookshop , second - hand goes with book , but first - rate with the whole combination second- hand bookshop . The man who advertised a " superfluous hair - remover " would have done better to put the hyphen between superfluous and ...
... hand bookshop , second - hand goes with book , but first - rate with the whole combination second- hand bookshop . The man who advertised a " superfluous hair - remover " would have done better to put the hyphen between superfluous and ...
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... hand to mouth . Without looking to right or left ( but : he looked first to the right , then to the left ) . Let me tell you , as man to man . Making money hand over fist ; he took the coin between thumb and finger . Hand in hand ; arm ...
... hand to mouth . Without looking to right or left ( but : he looked first to the right , then to the left ) . Let me tell you , as man to man . Making money hand over fist ; he took the coin between thumb and finger . Hand in hand ; arm ...
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... hand the negative is often attracted to any word that can easily be made negative . This is found with particular frequency in the literary language , which prefers This will be no easy matter , We met nobody , while in ordinary ...
... hand the negative is often attracted to any word that can easily be made negative . This is found with particular frequency in the literary language , which prefers This will be no easy matter , We met nobody , while in ordinary ...
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