A Practical and Critical Grammar of the English LanguageReprint of the original, first published in 1874. |
Contents
ENGLISH GRAMMAR DIVISIONS | 11 |
CLASSES OF LETTERS | 69 |
Gender | 103 |
RULES OF SYNTAX | 188 |
Possessive case | 194 |
Object of transitive verb | 202 |
All of his | 218 |
The Infinitive | 228 |
The nay no | 242 |
INTERJECTIONS | 248 |
Office of grammar | 297 |
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Common terms and phrases
accented action active voice adjunct adverb modifying anapests Anglo-Saxon antecedent apple asserted auxiliary perfect participle belong Cæsar called comma compound conjunctive adverb connected consonant construction Correct the errors denotes employed English equivalent EXERCISES expressed finite verb gender gerund give grammarians grammatical predicate Grammatical subject happy horse idea imperative mood imperfect infinitive indicative mood infinitive mood interrogative intransitive James John language letter limiting adjective logical predicate Logical subject loved Mary masculine meaning nominative nominative absolute noun-proposition number and person object parsing passage passive voice past tense person singular play plural possessive preceding predicate-nominative proposition punctuation regarded relative pronoun Remark represented Rule second person sense simple singular number sound speaker speaking spoken subjunctive subjunctive mood SUBVOCALS superlative syllable thee thing third person thou transitive verb tree trochee understood verse vowel walk wish write