A Grammar of Late Modern English: For the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, Students, Part 1P. Noordhoff, 1904 |
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... introduction to an intelligible discussion of the arrangement of the ele- ments of the sentence . I have not included derivation , word - formation , and phonetics in my programme , these subjects lying for the present outside the field ...
... introduction to an intelligible discussion of the arrangement of the ele- ments of the sentence . I have not included derivation , word - formation , and phonetics in my programme , these subjects lying for the present outside the field ...
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... introduced to so large a party . VAN . FAIR , I , CH . XXVII , 287 . i . ii . i . ii . 7. It is more frequently used than dropped before a preposi- tional phrase denoting a state . The girl had made him feel himself more of a fool than ...
... introduced to so large a party . VAN . FAIR , I , CH . XXVII , 287 . i . ii . i . ii . 7. It is more frequently used than dropped before a preposi- tional phrase denoting a state . The girl had made him feel himself more of a fool than ...
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... what is the subject of a fear . May is only common in such clauses as are introduced by that ; after lest we mostly meet with should , which varies with the subjunctive mood . I had taken a fear in my mind that he 23.
... what is the subject of a fear . May is only common in such clauses as are introduced by that ; after lest we mostly meet with should , which varies with the subjunctive mood . I had taken a fear in my mind that he 23.
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... introduced by compounds of ever , when implying a condition . Shall has the same force as in the quotations mentioned under a ) and b ) . i . I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live , To do whatever Faustus shall command . DocT . FAUST ...
... introduced by compounds of ever , when implying a condition . Shall has the same force as in the quotations mentioned under a ) and b ) . i . I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live , To do whatever Faustus shall command . DocT . FAUST ...
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... introduction to the study of our authors . SKEAT . My advice to you , Mr. Lydgate , would be that you should simply become a bankrupt . MID . , CH . LXVII , 508 . It is for my interest and for yours too that we should be friends . ib ...
... introduction to the study of our authors . SKEAT . My advice to you , Mr. Lydgate , would be that you should simply become a bankrupt . MID . , CH . LXVII , 508 . It is for my interest and for yours too that we should be friends . ib ...
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adjective adnom adverbial adjunct adverbial clauses BARRY PAIN BLEAK HOUSE BRONTË CHRISTM CHUZ CLIVE Compare conjunctive adverbs construction copula denoting DOLF HEYL Dutch E. W. HORNUNG Early Modern English ENGL equivalent expressed FAIR following quotations frequently gerund gerund-construction gerund(-clause GOOD-NAT Grammar of Late GRAPH GÜNTH HAML head-sentence HENRY ESM HIST HUXL infinitive infinitive-clause infinitive-construction instances JOHN HAL KATH lady Late Modern English Lord MARN meaning MEES modified MURRAY N. E. GR never NIGHT AND MORN non-prepositional object Note noun OLLA PODRIDA participle PEND PICKW POUTSMA preceded predicative adnominal adjunct preposition prepositional object preterite PRIDE AND PREJ pronoun regularly SCHOOL FOR SCAND seems sentence sometimes stand STOF subordinate statement tell TITM TOM BROWN undeveloped clauses verbs VIII WEBST WESTW word word-group XVII XVIII XXXII
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