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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... seen it- and the difficulty in saying Neither my brother nor I am ( ? is , ? are ) rich . A few quotations will show how various writers have cut this Gordian knot : Nor God , nor I , delights in perjur'd men ( Sh . ) . Neither she nor ...
... seen it- and the difficulty in saying Neither my brother nor I am ( ? is , ? are ) rich . A few quotations will show how various writers have cut this Gordian knot : Nor God , nor I , delights in perjur'd men ( Sh . ) . Neither she nor ...
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... seen me . He saw me after I had seen him . He did not see me till I had seen him . In clauses beginning with after we have already seen ( 23.6 , ) that the simple preterit often means the same thing as the pluperfect . The latter must ...
... seen me . He saw me after I had seen him . He did not see me till I had seen him . In clauses beginning with after we have already seen ( 23.6 , ) that the simple preterit often means the same thing as the pluperfect . The latter must ...
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... seen her on Tuesday ( 3 ) he had not seen her yet Let us call these uses of the tenses : ( 1 ) back - shifted present ( 2 ) back - shifted preterit ( 3 ) back - shifted perfect The pluperfect cannot be further shifted : " I had already ...
... seen her on Tuesday ( 3 ) he had not seen her yet Let us call these uses of the tenses : ( 1 ) back - shifted present ( 2 ) back - shifted preterit ( 3 ) back - shifted perfect The pluperfect cannot be further shifted : " I had already ...
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