How to Parse: An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Scholarship to English Grammar; with Appendixes on Analysis, Spelling, and Punctuation ...Roberts brothers, 1878 - 343 Seiten |
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3rd Sing action Active Participle Adjectival Adjective Phrases Adverb Adverbial Phrase answer Antecedent Apposition asked Auxiliary Verbs brevity called Clause Comma Compare Compound Verb Conditional Mood confusion Conjunction Consequent denote ditional Early English EXERCISE explained express French Future Grammar Greeks Hence idiom Imperative Mood implied Indicative Indirect Object Infinitive Inflections inserted Interrogative Intransitive irregularity italicized Verbs J. R. SEELEY ject John king language Latin Layamon lion meaning Modern English Noun or Pronoun Number omitted once Paragraph Parse Passive Participle Past Indefinite Past Tense Period Person Plural Poetry Pope preceded Preposition Present Principal Sentence Principal Verb pupil purpose question rarely rascal regarded Regular Construction Relative Pronoun retained seems Shakspeare Singular sometimes sound speak Sub-ordinate Sentence Subject or Object Subjunctive Subjunctive Mood syllable Tell tence termination thing Thomas thou tion tive Transitive Verb Verbal Noun Voice vowel walk words Xerxes
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