Part 33

Adverbs Defined, 41, 282 Use of, 279-281 How to tell, 283 Classes of, 284 Interrogative, 285 Of mode, 286, 397 Phrase Adverbs, 287 To Distinguish from Adj, 288-289 Derivation of, 290 Nouns used as, 291 Comparison of, 292-294 Position of, 295 With Infinitive, 296 Common errors in use of, 297-298

Articles A and An, use of, 252-253 The, use of, 254

Capital Letters Need of, 464 Uses of, 22, 60, 465 Rules for, 466-484

Clauses Defined, 406 Noun, 361-366, 371, 445 Adjective, 367-372, 446 With Conjunctions, 376 Introduced by as, 378 Adverb, 447 Dependent, kinds of, 444-447

Conjunctions Defined, 52, 331 Uses of, 328 Classes of, 329-330 Co-ordinate, 332-334 Uses of, 336-345 Correlatives, 346 Subordinate, defined, 349 Use of, 347 Classes of, 350-359 Phrase Conjunctions, 360

Connective Words Classes of, 379 Uses of, 380-385

Contractions, 485

Dictionary, Use of, 4

Exclamatory Words, 390-391

Explanatory Words, 398

Good English, defined, 2

Grammar, English, defined, 10

Independent Expressions, 393

Infinitives Use of, 151-167 To, omitted, 153-155 Forms of, 156 Passive, 156-157

Interjections Defined, 57, 388 Classes of, 389

Introductory Words, 394-396

Language Defined, 8 Natural, 5 Spoken, 6 Written, 7

Nouns Defined, 26 Classification of, 59 Proper, defined, 60 Common, defined, 60 Collective, defined, 61 Abstract, 62-66 Concrete, 63 Number, defined, 68 Number, Singular, 68 Number, Plural, 68 Formation of Plural, 69-84 Formation of Possessive, 89-90, 92 Compound, 91 Gender, defined, 85 Formation of Feminine, 86 Neuter, 87 Common, 88

Object Direct, 100, 408-410, 427-430 Indirect, 408-410

Participle Defined, 116 Active form, 114 Present form, 114, 148 Passive form, 115, 148 Past form, 115 Past irregular forms, 124 Used as nouns, 148 Used as adjective, 272-274 Phrase, 149-150 Phrase used as adjective, 275

Parts of Speech, 24

Phrases Verb, 29, 413 Adverbs, 287 Prepositional, 300-305, 317-321 Prepositions, 308 Conjunctions, 360

Predicate Defined, 17 Complete, 406, 425 Simple, 406 Simple Enlarged, 463 Complement, 411-412 Modifiers of, 461

Prepositions Defined, 47, 305 Use of, 309-312 Object of, 304, 313 List of, 306 How to Distinguish from Adverbs, 307 Phrase prepositions, 308 Place of, 314-316 Common errors in use of, 322 With verbs, 327 Choice of, 323-326

Prepositional Phrases, 300-305 Use of, 317-321

Pronouns Defined, 43, 202 Antecedent of, 203 Personal, 204 Compound personal, 205-208 Number forms of, 209 Object forms of, 214-215 Possessive forms of, 211-213 Gender forms of, 216 With verb "be", 217-218 Agreement of, 219-225 Personification, 226 Interrogative, 228-231 Relative, 232-236 What, 234, 236-240 Who, 234, 235, 240 Which, 234-236, 240 That, 234-236 Omitted, 239

Punctuation Need of, 490-493 Marks of, 494 The Comma, 495-496 Rules for use of, 497-506 The Semi-colon, 407-511 The Colon, 512-515 The Period, 22, 516-521 The Interrogation Point, 22, 523-524 The Exclamation Point, 22, 525-526 The Dash, 527-536 The Parenthesis, 537-543 The Bracket, 544-547 The Quotation Marks, 548-555 The Apostrophe, 556-559 The Hyphen, 560-567 The Caret, 568 Marks of Ellipsis, 570 Marks of Reference, 571

Responsives, 392

Sentence Defined, 15 Essentials of, 18 Use of, 19 Assertive, 20 Interrogative, 20 Imperative, 20 Exclamatory, 21 Elements, order of, 436-438 Analysis of, 456-457 Simple, defined, 404-406 Modifiers of, 434-435 Essentials of, 459 Analysis of, 402-405 Complex, 406, 443, 451 Analysis of, 448 Compound, defined, 406, 452 Kinds of, 453-455 Building of, 400 Classification of, 401 Summary of, 458 Subject of, 416-420

Subject Defined, 16 Complete, 406 Simple, 406 Simple, enlarged, 462 Place of, 421-424

Thought, Complete, 12-14

Verb Defined, 29 Complete, 95, 103, 131, 158 Incomplete, 95, 103, 131, 426 Classified, 99, 103 Complement of, 95, 102 Transitive, defined, 100, 103 Object of, 100, 141 Copulative, 102-103, 431-433 Time forms Present, 104, 108, 111 Past, 104, 109, 111 Future, 118-120 Pres. Perf., 121-123, 145 Past Perf., 126 Future Perf., 128 Regular, 110 Irregular, 110 Progressive Form, 133 Present, 134, 146 Past, 135, 146 Future, 136, 146 Pres. Perf., 138, 146 Past Perf., 139, 146 Fut. Perf., 140, 146 Active, 142 Passive, 141-146 Helping, 168-184 Be, 186 Lay, lie, set, sit, raise, rise, 191-193 S-form, 106, 194-196 Phrase, 29, 413-414

Words Defined, 8 Mastery of, 10 Use of, 23

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Transcriber's note:

1. Punctuation errors such as incorrect or missing end-of-sentence punctuation, period for comma in mid-sentence, and missing end quotation marks have been corrected without comment. Inconsistency in the author's spelling of certain words, such as today/to-day have been retained.

2. The list of foreign words broken across pp. 44-45 (section 80.) and the list of abbreviations broken across pp. 295-296 (section 489.) were rearranged to preserve alphabetical order.

3. The numbering in Exercise 4 on p. 110 (section 193.) was corrected.

4. Added ditto marks (") to the table on p. 153 (section 270).

5. Commas were added to the separate the abbreviations on p. 305 (section 518).

6. The following typographical errors were corrected:

Page 10 "your vocabularly" changed to "your vocabulary" 23 "verb-phrase" changed to "verb phrase" 38 "as limited a vocabularly" changed to "as limited a vocabulary" 41 "the name of person" changed to "the name of the person" 44 "Mr. Hays" changed to "Mr. Hayes" 82 "the Bastile" changed to "the Bastille" 143 "publiher" changed to "publisher" 157 "than he had them" changed to "than he had then" 180 "the noun _man_" changed to "the noun _men_" (two instances) 182 "a little work" changed to "a little word" 187 "_of_ the desire of" changed to "of the desire _of_" 191 "expresed" changed to "expressed" 207 "He feels keenly and deeply and wrongs of his class." changed to "He feels keenly and deeply the wrongs of his class." 222 "our expression of it become more simple." changed to "our expression of it became more simple." 238 "in apposition to the pronoun I" changed to "in apposition to the pronoun We". 252 "_I_ see a pale face" changed to "_I see_ a pale face" 265 "With your faces pinches and blue" changed to "with your faces pinched and blue" 271 "the _party which fought for their rights_" changed to "the party _which fought for their rights_" 277 "Find _e_ or _y_" changed to "Final _e_ or _y_" 287 "The prefix _in_ used with adjectives" changed to "The prefix _un_ used with adjectives" 312 "The dash if often used" changed to "The dash is often used"