An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises

+527.+ Good usage does not demand that all sentences shall be absolutely complete. It often allows (and sometimes requires) the omission of words that, though necessary to the c...

+210.+ Certain verbs, when used to make verb-phrases, are called auxiliary (that is, “aiding”) verbs, because they help other verbs to express action or state of some particular...

NOTE. Although a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place, or thing, that name may be given to more than one individual. More than one man is named _James_; but whe...

+Summary.+ The Sentence: Subject and Predicate; Kinds of Sentences.--Use of words in the Sentence: the Eight Parts of Speech; Infinitives and Participles.--Comparative Importanc...

+393.+ Subordinate clauses may be classified not only according to their use as parts of speech, but also, in quite a different way, in accordance with their +various meanings+....

In ordinary prose, _you_, _your_, and _yours_ are the only forms used for the second person, whether singular or plural. Yet _you_, even when denoting a single person, always ta...

I. All clauses are either +independent+ or +subordinate+. A clause is subordinate if it is used as a part of speech (noun, adjective, or adverb); otherwise, it is independent (§...

Lists of Verbs 291 Conjugation of the Verb _to be_ 300 Conjugation of the Verb _to strike_ 301 Use of Capital Letters 305 Rules of Punctuation 306 Rules of Syntax 311 The Englis...

+462.+ The various kinds of +modifiers+ and +complements+ have all been studied in preceding chapters,--each in connection with the construction which it illustrates. For purpos...

NOTE. In the oldest English many adverbs ended in _-ë_, as if formed directly from adjectives by means of this ending. Thus, the adjective for _hot_ was _hāt_, side by side with...

NOTE. Many descriptive adjectives are +compound+ (see § 64): as,--steadfast, lionlike, fireproof, downright, heartsick, everlasting, brown-eyed, broad-shouldered, ill-tempered,...

NOTE. In this use _that_ is equivalent either to “because” or to “as to the fact that.” The clause may be explained as a noun clause in the adverbial objective construction (§ 1...

+448.+ +Analysis+ is a Greek word which means “the act of dissolving or breaking up.” In grammar it is applied to the separation of a sentence into its constituent parts, or +el...

+482.+ 1. Some verbs have a meaning that is +complete in itself+. Such a verb needs only a subject. When this has been supplied, we have a sentence, for the mere verb, without a...

In each of the first four sentences, the conjunction (_and_, _or_, _but_) connects single words that are in the same construction (subjects, objects, predicate adjectives, adver...

+458.+ In analyzing a +simple sentence+, we first divide it into the +complete subject+ and the +complete predicate+. Then we point out the +simple subject+ with its +modifiers+...

Thus, in the first example, _of nuts_ is an adjective phrase modifying the noun _heap_, and _on the floor_ is an adverbial phrase modifying the verb _lay_. In the second sentenc...

natural order, first explaining how sentences are put together, and then illustrating the process by which they may be resolved into their constituent parts. Modifiers and Compl...

NOTE. All such expressions are often regarded as elliptical sentences, as if “O for a camera!” stood for “O, I wish for a camera!” and “Good for you!” for “That is good for you!...

The examples show that a word may be inflected (1) by the addition of a final letter or syllable (_dog_, _dogs_; _look_, _looked_), (2) by the substitution of one letter for ano...

+502.+ +A word or group of words attached to or inserted in a sentence as a mere comment, without belonging either to the subject or the predicate, is said to be parenthetical.+

Classification of Verbs 91 253 Auxiliary Verbs--Verb-Phrases 91 253 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 92 253 Copulative Verbs 93 253 Inflection of Verbs 94 254 Tense of Verbs 94...

The Sentence--Subject and Predicate 1 227 Kinds of Sentences 2 227 The Eight Parts of Speech Defined 3 228 The Same Word as Different Parts of Speech 9 229 Infinitives and Parti...

Clauses of Place and Time 163 272 Causal Clauses 164 272 Concessive Clauses 164 272 Clauses of Purpose and Result 166 274 Conditional Sentences 167 274 Forms of Conditions 169 2...

General Principles 210 287 Coördination and Subordination 210 287 Clauses--Simple, Compound, Complex 211 287 Complex Sentences 186 282 Simple Sentences with Compound Subject or...

Personal Pronouns 55 241 Gender and Number of Personal Pronouns 56 241 Case of Personal Pronouns 57 241 The Self-Pronouns (Compound Personal Pronouns) 60 241 Adjective Pronouns-...

25–182). It includes also a chapter on the use of subordinate clauses as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs (pp. 157–162), as well as a chapter in which such clauses are logically c...

Classification--Common Nouns and Proper Nouns 27 233 Special Classes--Abstract, Collective, Compound 29 234 Inflection of Nouns 30 235 Gender 31 235 Number 34 235 Person 39 236...