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.

  Prefixes, gender shown by, 32.

  Prepositions, certain, with certain words, 332.
    classification of, 206.
    definition of, 203.
    followed by possessive case, 54, 64.
    by nominative case, 283.
    how to parse, 219.
    objects of, 203.
    position of, 202.
    relations expressed by certain, 208.
    same words as other parts of speech, 187, 195, 207.
    syntax of, 331.
    uses of, 129, 132, 205.
    various, with same meaning, 333.

  Present tense used as future, 147.

  Pretty as adverb, 186.

  Pronominal adjectives, interrogative, 105.
    relative, 104.
    what, exclamatory, 105.

  Pronouns, 58.
    adjective, 89.
       all, singular and plural, 302.
       any, usually plural, 300.
       each other, one another, 299.
       either, neither, with verbs, 300.
       none, usually plural, 301.
       somebody else’s, 303.
    definition of, 58.
    how to parse, 95.
    indefinite, 93.
    interrogative, 72.
       who as objective, 283.
    personal, 59.
       after than, as, 280.
       antecedents of, 287.
       nominative and objective, forms of, 279.
       nominative form of, after but, 284.
       objective form of, for predicate nominative, 281.
       objective form of, in exclamations, 282.
       possessive form of, as antecedent of relative, 285.
       possessive form of, with gerund, 286.
    relative, 74.
       agreement of, with antecedent, 291.
       anacoluthon with which, 295.
       and who, and which, 296.
       as, that, who, and which after same, 295.
       how to parse, 80.
       omission of, 87, 293.
       restrictive and unrestrictive, 289.
       two relatives, same antecedent, 297.
    syntax of, 279.
    usefulness of, 58.

  Proper nouns.  See Nouns.

  Purpose, clauses of, 263.
    conjunctions of, 195.

  Quality, adjectives of, 99.

  Quantity, adjectives of, 101.

  Questions, direct and indirect, adverbs in, 188.
       pronominal adjectives in, 105.
       pronouns in, 85.
    indirect, subjunctive in, 142.

  Quotations.  See Direct discourse.

  Rank, adjectives of same and different, 115.

  Rather, 189.

  Reflexive pronouns, history of, 69.
    how formed, 69.

  Reflexive use of personal pronoun, 68.

  Relative pronoun, 74.
    but and as, 84.
    distinguished from interrogative, in indirect questions, 85.
    function of, 74.
    indefinite or compound, 83.
    omission of, 87, 293.
    restrictive use of, 289.
    syntax of, 289.
    use of, 74.

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