A Grammar of Late Modern English: For the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, Students, Volume 1, Part 1P. Noordhoff, 1928 |
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adjective adnominal adjuncts adverbial adjunct alternative construction appears apposition BARRY PAIN BEATR Bleak House BRONTË Christm clause combinations common Compare connexion copula CRAIK denoting DICK Dutch E. F. BENSON E. W. HORNUNG EDNA LYALL ELIOT English expressed Fair following examples frequent GALSW GASK genitive gerund HARDY head-word indefinite infinitive instances JANE AUSTEN Jane Eyre John Hal KINGSLEY knew Lady Last Chron LYTTON Manch meaning modified N. E. Gr never nominal non-prepositional objects Note noun observed ordinary participle Pend periphrasis person person-complement person-object Pickw post-position preceding predicate preposition preterite primary passive conversion pronoun reflexive pronoun Rienzi SCOTT secondary passive conversion sentence SHAK SHER Short Hist sometimes stand subordinate statement SWEET Synt THACK thing thing-object Titm to-complement Tom Brown TROL verb VIII Westm word word-group XVII XVIII
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