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Accidence Adverb Clauses aeth Aorist brenin buasai bydd byddaf chwi complex sentence Conditional Sentence corresponding ddyfod denoting dependent noun Dependent Questions e.g. mae e.g. yr employed English equivalent expressed by means fixed preposition French fyned genitive Greek gwelaf gyda hyd y hynny iddo introduced inverted order John language Latin mae yn marks an action Medieval Welsh mewn Modern Welsh negative normal order Noun Clauses Noun Phrase Object oeddwn Parallel Grammar Past Imperfect Pluperfect plural possessive adjective Predicate Predicate-adjective Predicate-noun Present Principal Clause proclitic pronoun Reader and Writer Relative Clauses rhag sentence of normal sentences of inverted SONNENSCHEIN Subject Subjunctive sydd Syntax tense uwch verb-adjective verb-noun verb-noun phrases Verbs taking wedi Will-speech words wrth y cyrff ydyw yr hwn yr oedd
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Page 114 - And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation; 37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
Page 85 - The Noun, the Adjective, and the Adverb may be replaced by other parts of speech doing the same work in the sentence. A word doing the work of a different part of speech, or a group of words doing the work of a single part of speech, is called an Equivalent. A group of words forming an Equivalent and not having Subject and Predicate of its own is called a Phrase.
Page 116 - ... large. That grammarians do not hesitate to call was a 'subjunctive' in such utterances as 'If he was here' appears from the following: 1932 Curme (Syntax p. 58) observes: "This use of was as a past subjunctive arose in the seventeenth century", and 1905 Onions (Adv. Eng. Syntax § 55) avers: "When the Principal Clause speaks of what "would be", or "would have been", both Clauses take the Subjunctive, as in Latin and German: a) Present Tense 'If he did this, he would sin'", and adds in a footnote:...
Page 89 - The two parts of Syntax. Syntax has to answer two questions :— 1. How are meanings expressed in sentences and parts of sentences ? The answer is given in Part I. of Syntax (§§ 46-71), which deals with Sentence Construction.
Page 88 - Two or more Sentences, Clauses, Phrases, or Single Words, linked together by one of the Conjunctions and, but, or, nor, for are called Co-ordinate, ie of the same rank ; and the Conjunctions which link them together are called Co-ordinating Conjunctions : (i.) Linking together Sentences : God made the country, and man made the town.
Page 116 - I had listened to my father's advice ', the ' if '-clause is past, the principal clause is present. (2) Those Clauses of Condition in which an ' if '-clause of Open Condition says nothing about either fact or fulfilment and the principal clause does not speak of what would be or would have been.
Page 85 - A group of words forming an Equivalent and having a Subject and Predicate of its own is called a Subordinate Clause (cf. §312). 309 A Noun-equivalent may be : — (1) a Pronoun : <rv ¡¿tv tvrv^s еГ, еуш Se Swrru^s, you indeed are fortunate, but I am unfortunate ; 58' e'/t
Page 93 - RULE.—If the words composing the Subject are of different persons, then the Plural Verb is of the 1st Person rather than the 2nd or 3rd, and of the 2nd Person rather than the 3rd. REASON : " His son and I" cannot be spoken of together except as "we"; similarly "you and they''= "you"; "he and his brother