A Companion to the Higher English Grammar

Alexander Bain

Longmans, Green, 1874 - 374 Seiten

Inhalt

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• 28: 2
• DEFINITION OF THE VERB: 10
• DEFINITION OF THE CONJUNCTION: 17
• CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS: 20
• class noun: 26
• Abstract Nouns often take the character of Common nounsa: 30
• THE PRONOUN: 36
• Balanced structure lightens ambiguity: 43
• THEY no sex confounds Persons and Things: 50
• Regrettable weakness of English in demonstrative pronouns: 52
• vated language: 56
• Special idiom for reference to one: 62
• Rare use of thatas coordinating instances: 68
• As also by ellipsis is used for that after such and same: 74
• Disadvantages of thatenumerated: 80
• THE ADJECTIVE: 86
• Danger of pushing the formal scheme too far: 92
• This accounts for Adjectives derived from nouns by suffixes: 98
• At what point the Participle may be held to become an Adjec: 99
• characteristic usage: 106
• Then firstsecond firstnamedsecondnamed: 112
• The ARTICLES are Adjectives in force as well as in origin: 113
• Cases corresponding to the classical Middle Voice: 119
• of precedes object: 125
• Verb influence at the root of the qualification: 128
• Peculiar action of these imitated by Adverbs of Quality: 134
• cases Of might often be dropped: 140
• Inadequate to strong alternative contrasts or else: 145
• Cases for distinct names for gender enumerated: 151
• Plurality and unity combined in the collective noun: 157
• CONJUGATION OF THE VERB: 163
• Latin and Greek constructions illustrative: 177
• Interrogative forms for mere futurity: 183
• Contingent Determination: 189
• Miscellaneous examples of Should and Would: 195
• Contingent Futurity is the typical use extensions: 199
• DERIVATION: 205
• 6: 211
• The language of the Bible might be still more simple: 217
• extended examples: 229
• The important points of the subject: 230
• Where the superior importance lies: 243
• Very numerous Limits of the discussion: 256
• Mainly supplementary and as regards the influence of Suffixes: 271
• Knowledge of the Derivative process detects malformations: 277
• Nouns of Multitude how construed: 283
• Emphatic singularity demands singular forms: 286
• Inadequate representative on high occasions: 293
• Inversion of complement easy Ambiguities: 299
• The three first or the first three: 305
• Special case of obverse couples: 311
• similar case of first: 318
• Important adverbial adjuncts firsta powerful inversion: 324
• The Verb is the Predicate word it asserts or denies 10: 10

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 336 - They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

Seite 279 - The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed...

Seite 180 - The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

Seite 189 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?

Seite 71 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.

Seite 85 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Seite 153 - Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.

Seite 84 - The rabble's rage, and tyrant's angry steel; Thou transitory flower, alike undone By proud contempt, or...

Seite 274 - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips ; but their heart is far from me.

Seite 44 - Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: A Companion to the Higher English Grammar
• Autor/in: Alexander Bain
• Verlag: Longmans, Green, 1874
• Original von: Oxford University
• Digitalisiert: 8. Aug. 2006
• Länge: 374 Seiten