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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... names of the parts of speech are taken from Latin , but students of Latin should be warned against the etymological fallacy of taking these names at their face value : a pronoun ( Latin : pronomen ) is not what stands instead of a name ...
... names of the parts of speech are taken from Latin , but students of Latin should be warned against the etymological fallacy of taking these names at their face value : a pronoun ( Latin : pronomen ) is not what stands instead of a name ...
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... names and common names : it might be said that the articleless words mentioned in the last few paragraphs are treated in this way because they stand as a kind of proper name . The more a composite name of a locality is felt to be chosen ...
... names and common names : it might be said that the articleless words mentioned in the last few paragraphs are treated in this way because they stand as a kind of proper name . The more a composite name of a locality is felt to be chosen ...
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... names with plural form the West Indies , the Nether- lands , the Alps , the Hebrides , etc. 16.55 . English titles prefixed to a name have no article : Mr Smith , Dr Johnson , King George , etc. But Lady sometimes takes the article ...
... names with plural form the West Indies , the Nether- lands , the Alps , the Hebrides , etc. 16.55 . English titles prefixed to a name have no article : Mr Smith , Dr Johnson , King George , etc. But Lady sometimes takes the article ...
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