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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... important and significant one , received stronger stress than other syllables . This is still the case with native words , e.g. better , happiness , careless , etc. The root - syllable is generally the first as in the examples just ...
... important and significant one , received stronger stress than other syllables . This is still the case with native words , e.g. better , happiness , careless , etc. The root - syllable is generally the first as in the examples just ...
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... important , to which the two others are subordinate , and of these again cold is more important than terribly . Weather is determined or defined by cold , and cold in its turn similarly determined or defined by terribly . We have thus ...
... important , to which the two others are subordinate , and of these again cold is more important than terribly . Weather is determined or defined by cold , and cold in its turn similarly determined or defined by terribly . We have thus ...
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... important than others ; the place of the stress often serves to distinguish a substantive from a verb : a record : I record . Tone serves more emotional purposes and is of special importance in amorphous sentences and in questions . In ...
... important than others ; the place of the stress often serves to distinguish a substantive from a verb : a record : I record . Tone serves more emotional purposes and is of special importance in amorphous sentences and in questions . In ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER I | 15 |
CHAPTER II | 22 |
EVOLUTION OF THE SOUNDSYSTEM | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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adjectives adjunct adverbs auxiliary CHAPTER chiefly colloquial combinations comparative compounds conjunction connexion consonant construction corresponding definite denote Dickens diphthongs distinction English examples expanded tenses express felt French frequent future genitive gerund grammatical hence idea implies indefinite article indicated indirect object infinitive interrogative interrogative word intransitive intransitive verbs Jane Austen kind lady language look main sentence married mass-words meaning mentioned names natural negative never nexus nexus-substantives Note object originally passive perfect phonetic phrases pluperfect plural possessive pronoun possible predicative present tense preterit primary pronouns pronunciation question reference relative clause relative pronoun secondary seen sense set phrases Similarly singular sometimes sound speak speaker speech spelling spoken stress subjunctive substantive superlative syllable tendency tertiary thing third person thou verb voiceless voiceless consonant volition vowel woman word-order words writing