William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell
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An English Grammar
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AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR
BY
W.M. BASKERVILL
AND
J.W. SEWELL
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
PART I.
THE PARTS OF SPEECH.
NOUNS.
Exercises.
Exercise.
INFLECTIONS OF NOUNS.
GENDER.
I. Gender shown by Prefixes.
II. Gender shown by Suffixes.
III. Gender shown by Different Words.
Personification.
NUMBER.
I. Plurals formed by the Suffix -en.
II. Plurals formed by Vowel Change.
III. Plurals formed by Adding -s or -es.
Special Lists.
Exercise.
CASE.
I. Uses of the Nominative.
Exercise.
II. Uses of the Objective.
Exercise.
III. Uses of the Possessive.
Case Inflection.
Special Remarks on the Possessive Case.
Exercises.
HOW TO PARSE NOUNS.
MODEL FOR PARSING.
Exercise.
PRONOUNS.
PERSONAL PRONOUNS..
FORMS OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS.
Remarks on These Forms.
CASES OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS.
I The Nominative.
II. The Possessive.
III. The Objective.
SPECIAL USES OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS.
REFLEXIVE OR COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS.
Exercises on Personal Pronouns.
INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS.
DECLENSION OF INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS.
RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
REMARKS ON THE RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
DECLENSION OF RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
HOW TO PARSE RELATIVES.
Exercise.
INDEFINITE RELATIVES.
OTHER WORDS USED AS RELATIVES.
PRONOUNS IN INDIRECT QUESTIONS.
OMISSION OF THE RELATIVES.
Exercises on the Relative Pronoun.
ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS.
DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
Exercises.
DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUNS.
NUMERAL PRONOUNS.
INDEFINITE PRONOUNS.
HOW TO PARSE PRONOUNS.
Exercise.
ADJECTIVES.
DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES.
Exercises.
ADJECTIVES OF QUANTITY.
DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES.
PRONOMINAL ADJECTIVES.
INFLECTIONS OF ADJECTIVES.
COMPARISON.
Remarks on Irregular Adjectives.
CAUTION FOR ANALYZING OR PARSING.
Exercise.
ADVERBS USED AS ADJECTIVES.
HOW TO PARSE ADJECTIVES.
MODEL FOR PARSING.
Exercise.
ARTICLES.
USES OF THE DEFINITE ARTICLE.
USES OF THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE.
HOW TO PARSE ARTICLES.
Exercise.
VERBS AND VERBALS..
VERBS.
VERBS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO MEANING AND USE.
TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS.
Exercises.
VOICE, ACTIVE AND PASSIVE.
MOOD.
INDICATIVE MOOD.
SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.
Subjunctive in Independent Clauses.
I. Expressing a Wish.
II. A Contingent Declaration or Question.
Subjunctive in Dependent Clauses.
I. Condition or Supposition.
STUDY OF CONDITIONAL SENTENCES.
Exercise.
II. Subjunctive of Purpose.
III. Subjunctive of Result.
IV. In Temporal Clauses.
V. In Indirect Questions.
VI. Expressing a Wish.
VII. In a Noun Clause.
VIII. Concessive Clauses.
Prevalence of the Subjunctive Mood.
IMPERATIVE MOOD.
Exercises on the Moods.
TENSE.
PERSON AND NUMBER.
CONJUGATION.
Indicative Mood.
Subjunctive Mood.
Imperative Mood.
Indicative Mood.
Subjunctive Mood.
Imperative Mood.
FULL CONJUGATION OF THE VERB CHOOSE.
ACTIVE VOICE.
PASSIVE VOICE.
VERBS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO FORM.
Remarks on Certain Verb Forms.
DEFECTIVE STRONG VERBS.
Shall and Will.
Conjugation of Shall and Will as Auxiliaries (with Choose).
Exercises on Shall and Will.
Some Troublesome Verbs.
Exercise.
VERBALS.
PARTICIPLES.
Exercise.
INFINITIVES.
GERUNDS.
SUMMARY OF WORDS IN -ING
Exercise.
HOW TO PARSE VERBS AND VERBALS.
I. VERBS.
II. VERB PHRASES.
III. VERBALS.
Exercise.
ADVERBS.
ADVERBS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO MEANING.
ADVERBS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO USE.
COMPARISON OF ADVERBS.
Exercise.
HOW TO PARSE ADVERBS.
Exercise.
CONJUNCTIONS.
COÖRDINATE CONJUNCTIONS.
SUBORDINATE CONJUNCTIONS.
Exercises.
SPECIAL REMARKS.
Exercise.
PREPOSITIONS..
USES OF PREPOSITIONS.
CLASSES OF PREPOSITIONS.
PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE.
PREPOSITIONS OF TIME.
EXCLUSION OR SEPARATION.
MISCELLANEOUS PREPOSITIONS.
At.
By.
For.
From.
Of.
I. The From Relation.
On, Upon.
To.
With.
HOW TO PARSE PREPOSITIONS.
Exercises.
WORDS THAT NEED WATCHING.
WHAT.
BUT.
AS.
LIKE.
INTERJECTIONS.
PART II.
ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES.
CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO FORM.
CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO NUMBER OF STATEMENTS.
SIMPLE SENTENCES.
Exercise.
ELEMENTS OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE.
Things used as Subject.
Things used as Direct Object.
Things used as Complement.
Modifiers.
I. Modifiers of Subject, Object, or Complement.
II. Modifiers of the Predicate.
Exercises.
Compound Subject, Compound Predicate, etc.
Logical Subject and Logical Predicate.
Independent Elements of the Sentence.
PARTICIPLES AND PARTICIPIAL PHRASES.
INFINITIVES AND INFINITIVE PHRASES.
OUTLINE OF ANALYSIS.
Exercise in Analyzing Simple Sentences.
CONTRACTED SENTENCES.
COMPLEX SENTENCES.
CLAUSES.
Exercise.
Adjective Clauses.
Exercise.
ANALYZING COMPLEX SENTENCES.
OUTLINE
Exercises.
COMPOUND SENTENCES.
Exercise.
OUTLINE FOR ANALYZING COMPOUND SENTENCES.
Exercise.
PART III.
SYNTAX.
INTRODUCTORY.
NOUNS.
PRONOUNS.
PERSONAL PRONOUNS.
I. NOMINATIVE AND OBJECTIVE FORMS.
Exercise.
Exercise.
II. POSSESSIVE FORMS.
RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
I. RESTRICTIVE AND UNRESTRICTIVE RELATIVES.
Exercise.
II. RELATIVE AND ANTECEDENT.
III. OMISSION OF THE RELATIVE.
IV. THE RELATIVE AS AFTER SAME.
V. MISUSE OF RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
Exercise.
Exercise.
ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS.
ADJECTIVES.
AGREEMENT OF ADJECTIVES WITH NOUNS.
COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORMS.
Exercise.
ARTICLES.
VERBS.
CONCORD OF VERB AND SUBJECT IN NUMBER.
AGREEMENT OF VERB AND SUBJECT IN PERSON.
Exercise.
INDIRECT DISCOURSE.
Exercise.
VERBALS.
INFINITIVES.
Exercise.
ADVERBS.
Exercise.
USE OF DOUBLE NEGATIVES.
Exercise.
CONJUNCTIONS.
Exercise.
Exercise.
PREPOSITIONS.
LIST I.
LIST II.
LIST III.
Miscellaneous Examples for Correction.
INDEX.
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