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CHAPTER VIII. - VERBS, 222-307 (pp. 99-135).

VERB, definition and use, 222; transitive and intransitive verbs, 223; simple, de-
rivative, and compound verbs, 224-6; inflection, 227; for person and number,
228-30; for tense and mode, 231-4; infinitives and participles, 235-8; conjuga-
tions, New and Old, 239-40; examples of both conjugations, 241; principal parts,
242; tense-inflection, 243.

NEW CONJUGATION, 244-56: regular verbs, 244; irregular, 245–56.

OLD CONJUGATION, 257-75: characteristics, 257; classes and irregularities, 258-60;
Old verbs, and their mode of conjugation, 261-74; conjugation of be, 273;
double forms of participles, 275.

OTHER IRREGULAR VERBS (auxiliaries), 276-8.

COMPOUND VERBAL FORMS, VERB-PHRASES, 279-305: emphatic verb-phrases, 279-80;

continuous or progressive, 281; future, 282; distinction of shall and will, 283-6;

conditional, 287; perfect and pluperfect, 288-9; other tense and mode phrases,
potential and obligative, and their perfects, and progressive forms, 290 – 3; infini-
tive and participle-phrases, 294; scheme of conjugation, simple forms and phrases,
295; its indefinite limits, 296; passive verb-phrases, 297-305; progressive phrases,
299; scheme of conjugation, 300; active and passive, 301; passive and non-
passive use of phrases, 302-3; verbs forming passive phrases, 304-5.

REFLEXIVE AND IMPERSONAL VERBS, 306-7.

EXERCISES, FOR PRACTICE IN PARSING VERBS, pp. 131-4: examples of parsing

verbs; XII. Miscellaneous examples.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF IRREGULAR VERBS, p. 135.

Syntax, 337; kinds of sentence, 338-9; essential elements of the sentence, 340-44;
rules as to their form, 345-7; special cases, 348.

PREDICATE NOUN AND ADJECTIVE, 350-57: incomplete verbs, 350; addition of
predicate noun or adjective, 351-2; verbs taking such, 353; predicate adjective,
and adverb, 354; adverbial predicate, 355; agreement and rules, 356 - 7.

OBJECT OF THE VERB, 358-68: transitive verb and its object, 358-9; intransitives

and verbs used intransitively, 360 - 61; objects of intransitives, 362; direct and

indirect object, 363 - 8.

OBJECTIVE OR FACTITIVE PREDICATE, 369 - 71.

ATTRIBUTIVE AND APPOSITIVE ADJECTIVE AND NOUN, 372-9: attributive adjective,

372-4; appositive noun, 375; appositive adjective, 376; attributive noun, 377;

rules, 378; agreement, 379.

GENITIVE OR POSSESSIVE CASE OF NOUNS, 384-9: possessive genitive, 384; sub-
jective, objective, and appositive genitive, 385; adjective value of the case,
386-9.

ADVERBIAL OBJECTIVE CASE OF NOUNS, 390-94.

NOUN USED ABSOLUTELY, 395-7.

PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES, 398-404: uses of prepositions, 398-400; prepositional
adjective and adverb phrases, 401 – 4.

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Summary of the combinations forming a simple sentence, 405-6; bare and com-
plete subject and predicate, 407; simple, expanded, and compounded sentences,
408-10.

EXERCISES, FOR PRACTICE IN SIMPLE SENTENCE CONSTRUCTIONS, pp. 181-7.
XIII. Impersonal, collective, and compound subjects. XIV. Predicate noun
and adjective; adverbial predicate. XV. Objects of the verb; objective predi
cate. XVI. Attributive and appositive adjective and noun. XVII. Adverbs.
XVIII. Possessive case and possessives. XIX. Adverbial objective and nom-

inative absolute. XX. Prepositional phrases.

CHAPTER XIV. - COMPOUND AND COMPLEX SENTENCES, 411-37

(pp. 188-210).

Filling up and combination of sentences, 411-4; combining words, clauses, 415;
degrees of combination, 416; independent clauses, compound sentence, 417-9;
dependent clauses, complex sentence, 420-4; complex sentences with more
than one dependent clause, 425; compound-complex sentences, 426; complicated
sentences, 427; summary of rules, 428; adjective-clauses, 429-30; adverb-
clauses, 431-3; substantive-clauses, 434-5; omission of that, 436; dependent
clauses of addition, 437.

EXERCISES, FOR PRACTICE IN COMPOUND AND COMPLEX SENTENCES, pp. 201-10.

XXI. Combination and separation of sentences. XXII. Compound sentences:

independent co-ordinate clauses. XXIII. Complex sentences (with one depend-

ent clause). XXIV. Complex sentences (with more than one dependent clause);

compound-complex sentences. XXV. Adjective-clauses. XXVI. Adverb-clauses.

XXVII. Substantive-clauses. XXVIII. Omission of that; dependent clauses of

addition.

CHAPTER XVII. - ABBREVIATED AND INCOMPLETE EXPRESSION,

482-508 (pp. 237–52).

Complete and incomplete sentences, 482; abbreviation, 483-4; abbreviation in co-
ordinate clauses, 485; use of conjunctions, compound members of sentence,
486-8; abbreviation of dependent clause, 489-91; in question and answer,
490; substitution for repeated parts of speech, 492-3; comparative clauses,
with as and than, 494; omission of parts of the sentence, 495; various cases,
496-7; abbreviation for impressiveness, 498; exclamation, 499-502; interjec-
tional phrases, 503; change of character of words, 504-6; idioms and their expla-
nation, 507-8.

EXERCISES, FOR PRACTICE IN ABBREVIATED EXPRESSION, pp. 250-2: XXXII.

Miscellaneous examples.

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1. The English language is the language used by the people of England, and by all who speak like them anywhere else in the world; for example, in the United States.

2. There are hundreds and hundreds of different languages in the world, and the only way we can define any one of them is to say: "It is the language used in such and such a region, or by such and such people." The people from whom our language gets its name are those living in England. Their forefathers came to that country from the northern shore of Germany, about 1500 years ago, and drove out or destroyed the people who had lived in the country before, and who had spoken a very different language (much like what the Welsh, the language of Wales, is nowadays).

3. Because the English language was brought from Germany into England, being then only a dialect of German, it is still very much like the languages of Germany, and is for this reason often called a GERMANIC language (or a TEUTONIC, which means the same thing). And all the Germanic languages, along with most of the others in Europe, and a part of those of Asia, form a great body of languages resembling one another, and hence called a family"—the INDO-EUROPEAN (or the ARYAN) family.

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4. The English-speaking people of England were conquered in the eleventh century by the Normans, a French-speaking people;

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