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This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Grammar and Linguistics.
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Index
A.
abound 11.52.
about adv or prep 1.25; before inf 1.32; with vb 13.11: omitted 2.72.
accept (of) 13.44.
Accusative 12.14 14.l1; accusativus qualitatis, or of description 18.71.
acknowledge (to) 13.64.
act 16.81, 17.42.
Active and passive inf 11.61 and 67; activo-passive 16.8, 18.22.
add 16.81.
Addison on rel pronouns 4.32.
address 12.57.
Adjectives as antecedents 4.24, 6.45; adj or adv 17 passim (17.57).
Adjunct 11.l1, instead of nexus 11.12; adjunct rel clauses IV - X.
admit (of) 13.44, (to) 13.64.
Adverbs obj 1.11, of prep 1,12, with adjuncts 1.16; adv or prep 8.72, 13.9; adv or adj 17 passim; predicative 18.6.
advise 12.57, (with) 13.72.
afraid 15.84.
after (that) 2.21.
against 13.12.
age, of 18.68.
agree 16.91,.
ail 11.22.
all with rel 4.81; all which 6.47; all what 6.71; with contact-clause 7.22; all right 17.82.
allow (of) 13.44.
an (and) 2.42.
Anacoluthon 5.5.
Analysis, grammatical and logical 11.9.
and = if 2.4e; before rel 4.12; between subject and pred 17.84; + subject and pred 17.85; + pred alone 17.87.
answer 12.57, 14.91 a...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- I. Various Primaries
- II. Clauses as Primaries
- III. Relative Clauses as Primaries
- IV. Relative Clause Adjuncts
- V. Relative Clauses Continued
- VI. Differentiation of the wh·Pronouns
- VII. Contact-clauses
- VIII. Relative that
- IX. Relative as, than, but
- X. Relative Clauses Concluded
- XI. Nexus. Subject
- XII. Object
- XIII. Verbs with Object or Preposition
- XIV. Two Objects
- XV. Subject of a Passive Verb
- XVI. Transitivity
- XVII. Predicatives
- XVIII. Predicatives Concluded
- INDEX