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.

  Indexes, indices, 43.

  Indicative mood, uses of, 136.

  Indirect discourse, 320.

  Indirect object.  See Direct object.

  Indirect questions.  See Questions.

  Infinitive, active, with passive meaning, 176.
    not a mood, 153.
    syntax of, 319, 323.
    uses of, 248.

  _-Ing_ words, summary of, 178.

  Interjections, 227.

  Interrogative adjectives, 105.

  Interrogative adverbs, 188.

  Interrogative pronouns, 72.
    declension of, 73.
    in indirect questions, 85.
    syntax of, 283.

  Interrogative sentence, 231, 233.

  Intransitive verbs, 131.
    made transitive, 131.

  Irregularities in syntax, 276.

  Irregularly compared adjectives, 110.
    adverbs, 189.

  It, uses of, 67.

  “It was me,” etc., 63, 281.

  Its, history of, 61.

  Kind, these kind, etc., 303.

  Kine, double plural, 39.

  King, queen, 36.

  Lady, lord, 36.

  Last, latest, 110, 113.

  Latter, the, adjective, 102, 113.
    pronoun, 91.

  Lay, lie, 170.

  Less, lesser, 110.

  Lie.  See Lay.

  Like, syntax of, 227.
    uses of, 226.

  Literary English, 12.

  Little, a little, 126.

  Logic vs. form, in syntax, 276.

  Logical subject and predicate, 245.

  Lord. See Lady.

  _-Ly_, words in, 190.

  Madam, 36.

  Manner, adverbs of, 185, 188.
    conjunctions of, 195.

  Many, comparison of, 110, 112.

  Many a, 126.

  Mapping out sentences, 256, 265.

  Mare, 36.

  Master, mistress, 34.

  May, might, 160.

  Means, construction of, 41.

  Mighty as adverb, 187.

  Mine, of mine, 64.

  Modifier, adverb, position of, 325.

  Modifiers.  See Enlargement.

  Mood, definition of, 135.
    imperative, 144.
    indicative, 136, 137.
    subjunctive, 137-144.

  _-Most_, in superlatives, 113, 114, 189.

  Much, comparison of, 110, 112, 189.

  Must, 161.

  Near, nearer, nigh, etc., 110, 112.

  Negative, double, 326.

  Neither, adjective, 102.
       syntax of, 287.
    conjunction, 194.
       syntax of, 328.
    pronoun, 90, 92.
       syntax of, 300.

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