A New English Grammar: Based on the Recommendations of the Joint Committee on Grammatical Terminology, Parts 1-3 |
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3rd person accusative active voice adjective-clause adverb-clause adverbs Analyse antecedent bought called co-ordinating complex sentence compound conditioned futurity construction dare dative defective verb denoting number dependent questions dependent statements English grammar equivalent example exclamation expressed following passages following sentences French future perfect genitive gerund group of words guilders Hamelin Hereward the Wake indicative mood infinitive introduced King languages Latin MACAULAY main clause Mayor meaning Modern English never nominative noun noun or pronoun noun-clause number or amount object Old English past indicative past participle past subjunctive past tense person or thing Pied Piper pipe plur plural predicative adjectives preposition present indicative present subjunctive promise pron qualify R. L. STEVENSON rats relative adverb relative pronoun SCOTT seen sentence-adverb sentences containing SHAKESPEARE simple sentences sing singular sometimes stands subjunctive mood subjunctive-equivalent subordinate clause subordinating conjunction tell TENNYSON thee thou verb-adjectives verb-nouns