A Progressive Grammmar of the English Tongue (1876) |
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adjective element adverbial phrase Analysis Anglo-Saxon antecedent apposition auxiliary brother called clause collective noun comma Common Noun complement Complete Complex Sentence compound sentence conjugation Conjunctions connected DEFINITION denotes ellipsis English Grammar English Language English Personal Pronoun enlargement etymology Example Exercise EXPLANATION.-Here EXPLANATION.-The EXPLANATION.-This sentence express feminine following sentences gender grammarians hence ILLUSTRATIONS IMPERATIVE MOOD Incomplete Verb INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive inflection introduce joined Latin letter loved masculine means neuter verb nominative NOTE NOTE.-The object parsed participle Past Perfect Past Tense peculiar person singular Personal Pronoun Plural Number possessive POTENTIAL MOOD predicate preposition Present Perfect Present Tense PRINCIPAL PROPOSITIONS Progressive Grammar Proper Noun pupil Relative Adverbs Relative Pronouns river rule Saxon second person Simple sentence singular number sometimes speak speech stand statement Subjunctive Mood suffix superlative Swinton tell tence thing third person Thou tion tive transitive verb walk words