An English Grammar for the Higher Grades in Grammar Schools: Adapted from "Essentials of English Grammar" |
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ADJECTIVE CLAUSE adverb clauses antecedent APPOSITIVE Assertive sentence auxiliary beautiful belong bird called classes CO-ORDINATE commonly complement complex sentence COMPOUND SENTENCE CONJUNCTIONS construction Declension demonstrative pronoun denote dependent clause DERIVED direct object Draw one line England English language example Exclamatory express gender give given grammar imperative infinitives and participles inflection interjections interrogative pronoun Interrogative Sentence Intransitive irregular learned live meaning MODE modified nominative Noun clause noun or pronoun nouns and adjectives Old Conjugation Participial Infinitive passive verb-phrase past participle person or thing PERSONAL PRONOUNS Point possessive predicate adjective PREDICATE NOUN predicate verb prepositional phrase present participle present tense PRETERIT TENSE principal Pronominal Adjectives proper noun regular verb relative pronoun root ROOT-INFINITIVE simple sentences Sing singular number sometimes speak speech spoken subject and predicate subjunctive substantively tell tence third person thou tion tive TRANSITIVE VERB trees vowel words Write
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Bibliographic information
| Title | An English Grammar for the Higher Grades in Grammar Schools: Adapted from "Essentials of English Grammar" |
| Author | William Dwight Whitney |
| Publisher | Ginn, 1892 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 264 pages |
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