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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... verbs are in accordance with the general tendency of Modern English to place an in- significant ( auxiliary ) verb , to which the marks of person and tense are attached , before the really important idea : do you write , does he write ...
... verbs are in accordance with the general tendency of Modern English to place an in- significant ( auxiliary ) verb , to which the marks of person and tense are attached , before the really important idea : do you write , does he write ...
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... Verbs 11.81 . We speak of a verb as transitive if it has an object , and intransitive if it has none . The same verb is very often used both transitively and intransitively , when the meaning of the object is evident from the context ...
... Verbs 11.81 . We speak of a verb as transitive if it has an object , and intransitive if it has none . The same verb is very often used both transitively and intransitively , when the meaning of the object is evident from the context ...
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... verbs enables one to place a verb before the subject to indicate that the sentence is meant as a question or wish , etc. , and yet to have the subject before the really important verb , e.g. " Does he smoke ? " " May he live long ...
... verbs enables one to place a verb before the subject to indicate that the sentence is meant as a question or wish , etc. , and yet to have the subject before the really important verb , e.g. " Does he smoke ? " " May he live long ...
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