Essentials of English GrammarRoutledge, 24.05.2013 - 800 Seiten This book was first published in 1933, Essentials of English Grammar is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics. |
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... Language consists of words, but the way in which these words are modified and joined together to express thoughts and feelings differs from one language to another. English and French have many words in common but treat them in a ...
... Language consists of words, but the way in which these words are modified and joined together to express thoughts and feelings differs from one language to another. English and French have many words in common but treat them in a ...
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... Language is nothing but a set of human habits, the purpose of which is to give expression to thoughts and feelings, and especially to impart them to others. AS with other habits it is not to be expected that they should be perfectly ...
... Language is nothing but a set of human habits, the purpose of which is to give expression to thoughts and feelings, and especially to impart them to others. AS with other habits it is not to be expected that they should be perfectly ...
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... language is primarily speech, Le. chiefly conversation (dialogue), while the written (and printed) word is only a kind of substitute—— in many ways a most valuable, but in other respects a poor one -—for the spoken and heard word. Many ...
... language is primarily speech, Le. chiefly conversation (dialogue), while the written (and printed) word is only a kind of substitute—— in many ways a most valuable, but in other respects a poor one -—for the spoken and heard word. Many ...
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... language—would appear to be to give rules which must be obeyed if one wants to speak and write the language correctly—rules which as Often as not seem quite arbitrary. Of greater value, however, than this prescriptive grammar is a ...
... language—would appear to be to give rules which must be obeyed if one wants to speak and write the language correctly—rules which as Often as not seem quite arbitrary. Of greater value, however, than this prescriptive grammar is a ...
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... language : what in one period was a regular phenomenon may later become isolated and appear as an irregularity, an exception to what has now become the prevailing rule. Our grammar must therefore be historical to a certain extent ...
... language : what in one period was a regular phenomenon may later become isolated and appear as an irregularity, an exception to what has now become the prevailing rule. Our grammar must therefore be historical to a certain extent ...
Inhalt
15 | |
22 | |
29 | |
39 | |
CHAPTER V EVOLUTION OF THE SOUNDSYSTEMconcluded | 50 |
CHAPTER VI SPELLING | 61 |
CHAPTER VII PAGE WORDCLASSES | 66 |
CHAPTER VIII THE THREE RANKS | 78 |
CHAPTER XX NUMBER | 197 |
CHAPTER XXI NUMBERconcluded | 206 |
CHAPTER XXII DEGREE | 219 |
CHAPTER XXIII TENSE | 230 |
CHAPTER XXIV TENSEcontinued | 252 |
CHAPTER XXV WILL AND SHALL | 271 |
CHAPTER XXVI WOULD AND SHOULD | 282 |
CHAPTER XXVII PAGE MOOD | 293 |
CHAPTER IX JUNCTION AND NEXUS | 91 |
CHAPTER X SENTENCESTRUCTURE | 97 |
CHAPTER XI RELATIONS OF VERB TO SUBJECT AND OBJECT | 107 |
CHAPTER XII PASSIVE | 120 |
CHAPTER XIII PAGE PREDICATIVES | 124 |
CHAPTER XIV CASE | 132 |
CHAPTER XV PERSON | 147 |
CHAPTER XVI DEFINITE PRONOUNS | 152 |
CHAPTER XVII INDEFINITE PRONOUNS | 174 |
CHAPTER XVIII PAGE PRONOUNS OF TOTALITY | 184 |
CHAPTER XIX GENDER | 188 |
CHAPTER XXVIII AFFIRMATION NEGATION QUESTION | 296 |
CHAPTER XXIX DEPENDENT NEXUS | 309 |
CHAPTER XXX NEXUSSUBSTANTIVES | 316 |
CHAPTER XXXI THE GERUND | 320 |
CHAPTER XXXII THE INFINITIVE | 329 |
CHAPTER XXXIII CLAUSES AS PRIMARIES | 349 |
CHAPTER XXXIV CLAUSES AS SECONDARIES | 357 |
CHAPTER XXXV CLAUSES AS TERTIARIES | 369 |
CHAPTER XXXVI RETROSPECT | 374 |
INDEX | 379 |
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