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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... originally belonged closely together are torn completely asunder ; thus no one now has an immediate feeling that the first syllable of woman contains the same word as wife (OE. wifman; the shortened i is still heard in the plural women ...
... originally belonged closely together are torn completely asunder ; thus no one now has an immediate feeling that the first syllable of woman contains the same word as wife (OE. wifman; the shortened i is still heard in the plural women ...
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... (originally dayes-ye, “ day's-eye ”), etc. The feeling of one sense-unit is very strong in all these. But in many recent compounds each part is felt as a unit in itself and as equally important as the other, and this leads to equal or ...
... (originally dayes-ye, “ day's-eye ”), etc. The feeling of one sense-unit is very strong in all these. But in many recent compounds each part is felt as a unit in itself and as equally important as the other, and this leads to equal or ...
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... originally the strongest, but rad had a secondary stress because separated from cal by the weak i and later acquired the chief stress; similarly the third from the ending is stressed in individual, occupy, verity, necessity, tyranny ...
... originally the strongest, but rad had a secondary stress because separated from cal by the weak i and later acquired the chief stress; similarly the third from the ending is stressed in individual, occupy, verity, necessity, tyranny ...
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... originally kept apart by vowels distant from each other by one degree only. A few examples of each vowel may here be given, arranged according to the Middle English vowels, but written here in the modern spelling : [i'] : bite, wise, by ...
... originally kept apart by vowels distant from each other by one degree only. A few examples of each vowel may here be given, arranged according to the Middle English vowels, but written here in the modern spelling : [i'] : bite, wise, by ...
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... originally the same vowel [0'], which was raised to [u'], but while food has remained long, blood was shortened before [u] became [A], and good after that change had taken place. 3.8. In consequence of the great vowel-shift numerous ...
... originally the same vowel [0'], which was raised to [u'], but while food has remained long, blood was shortened before [u] became [A], and good after that change had taken place. 3.8. In consequence of the great vowel-shift numerous ...
Inhalt
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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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