A Diagram Review of GrammarPress of the Fullerton union high school and district junior college, 1929 - English language - 80 pages |
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... sentence . The following table suggests our meaning : IN THE MIND Idea Thought IN LANGUAGE Word Sentence An assertion is a statement of fact . A sentence is a group of words which makes a complete assertion . The test of a complete sentence ...
... sentence . The following table suggests our meaning : IN THE MIND Idea Thought IN LANGUAGE Word Sentence An assertion is a statement of fact . A sentence is a group of words which makes a complete assertion . The test of a complete sentence ...
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... complete thought . EXAMPLES When the pay roll is ready While I sat waiting ... sentence , as the foregoing groups of words show . PHRASES A phrase is a ... complete sentences in the following groups of words : 1. What he did . 4 PHRASES 2 ...
... complete thought . EXAMPLES When the pay roll is ready While I sat waiting ... sentence , as the foregoing groups of words show . PHRASES A phrase is a ... complete sentences in the following groups of words : 1. What he did . 4 PHRASES 2 ...
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... complete sentence ; but close study shows that the predicate verb is lacking or that the word - group is a dependent clause . Such word- groups are called fragments , and should be avoided as sen- tence errors . EXAMPLES 1. He being ...
... complete sentence ; but close study shows that the predicate verb is lacking or that the word - group is a dependent clause . Such word- groups are called fragments , and should be avoided as sen- tence errors . EXAMPLES 1. He being ...
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52 Declension add apostrophe ADJECTIVE CLAUSES ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS ADVERBIAL CLAUSES adverbs antecedent appositive assertion auxiliary verbs boys called Calvin Coolidge COMMA SPLICES COMPLEMENTS OF VERBALS complete sentence complex sentence COMPOUND PRONOUN compound sentence CONJUGATION OF INFINITIVES DECLENSION OF COMPOUND DECLENSION OF RELATIVE dependent clauses direct object EXAMPLES IN DIAGRAM EXAMPLES Positive Comparative express fit the foregoing following sentences foregoing diagram GENDER gerunds grammar group of words INDICATIVE MODE inflection intransitive John KINDS OF DEPENDENT KINDS OF SENTENCES LIE AND LAY list of sentences MODIFIER SUBJ MODIFIERS AND COMPLEMENTS nominative NOUN CLAUSES Nouns name things Nouns or pronouns OBJ OBJ OBJECTIVE SUBJECT Passive Voice Past Participle perfect tense PERSON AND NUMBER Place a comma plement Plural number Poss PREP Present Tense PRONOUNS Nom RELATIVE PRONOUNS REVIEW EXERCISES sentences to fit sick Simple future Sing Singular number speech SUBJECT WITH PREPOSITION Superlative tence transitive verb VERB PHRASES wanted word-groups