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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... look . This leads to the same word - order where there is no attraction to the verb : At quite a reasonable price - by the side of at a quite reasonable price . = At rather an early period at a rather early period . With rather a ...
... look . This leads to the same word - order where there is no attraction to the verb : At quite a reasonable price - by the side of at a quite reasonable price . = At rather an early period at a rather early period . With rather a ...
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... look at that letter ? Will you come for a walk this afternoon ? Will you pass the mustard , please ? Thus frequently after an imperative : Stop that noise , will you ? 25.35 . In conditional clauses will is used to express volition in ...
... look at that letter ? Will you come for a walk this afternoon ? Will you pass the mustard , please ? Thus frequently after an imperative : Stop that noise , will you ? 25.35 . In conditional clauses will is used to express volition in ...
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... ( look at = see , ' listen to hear ' ) . Examples : = I hoped I could count on you not to interfere . She can hardly prevail upon him to eat . I rely upon you to be discreet . Look at Lord Clodworthy come into a room with his wife ...
... ( look at = see , ' listen to hear ' ) . Examples : = I hoped I could count on you not to interfere . She can hardly prevail upon him to eat . I rely upon you to be discreet . Look at Lord Clodworthy come into a room with his wife ...
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