An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

  Analysis, definition of, 231.
    of complex sentences, 264.
    of compound sentences, 271.
    of simple sentences, 252.

  And who, and which, 296.

  Antecedent, agreement of pronoun and.  See Agreement.
    definition of, 74.
    of it, 67.
    of personal pronouns, 74, 287.
    of which, 79.

  Any, as adjective, 101.
    as pronoun, 90.
    syntax of, 300.

  Apostrophe in possessive, 51.

  Apposition, words in, 47, 49, 67, 240.

  Are, derivation of, 150.

  Arrangement in syntax, 275.

  Articles, definite, 120.
    definition of, 120.
    how to parse, 127.
    indefinite, 124.
    syntax of, 309.

  As, after same, 294.
    uses of, 84, 225.

  As if, as though, 198.

  At, uses of, 208.

  Auxiliary verbs, 148.

  Bad, comparison of, 110.

  Be, conjugation of, 149.
    uses of, 150.

  Better, best, 110, 111.

  Between. See Among.

  Brethren, 39.

  Bridegroom, 37.

  But, uses of, 84, 224.
    with nominative of pronoun, 283.

  But what, 330.

  By, uses of, 210.

  Can, could, 161.

  Case, definition of, 46.

  Case, double possessive, of nouns, 54.
       of pronouns, 64.
    forms, number of, in Old and Modern English, 46.
    nominative, of nouns, 47.
       of pronouns, 62, 279.
    objective, of nouns, 48.
       of pronouns, 66, 279.
    possessive, of nouns, 49, 278.
       of pronouns, 63.
    syntax of, 278.

  Cause, clauses of, 262.
    conjunctions of, 194, 195.

  Cherub, plurals of, 45.

  Children, 39.

  Clause, adjective, 260.
    adverb, 262.
    definition of, 257.
    kinds of, 257.
    noun, 258.

  Cleave, forms of, 158.

  Clomb, 157.

  Cloths, clothes, 43.

  Collective nouns, 18.
    syntax of, and verb, 312, 315.

  Colloquial English, 12.

  Common nouns, 18.
    derived from material, 24.
    derived from proper, 23.

  Comparative and superlative, double, 113, 307.
    syntax of, 307.

  Comparison, defective, 111.
    definition of, 108.
    degrees of, 108.
    irregular, 110.
    of adjectives, 107.
    of adverbs, 189.
    syntax of, 305.

  Complement of predicate, 239.

  Complementary infinitive, 248.

  Complex sentence, analysis of, 264.
    definition of, 257.

  Compound nouns, plural of, 43.
    possessive of, 53.

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