A Companion to the Higher English Grammar

Alexander Bain

Longmans, Green, 1874 - 374 Seiten

Inhalt

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• DEFINITION OF THE ADJECTIVE: 8
• The Finite verb alone concerned in the definition: 10
• DEFINITION OF THE CONJUNCTION: 17
• CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS: 20
• The typical example is common general significant and: 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
• Theythe popular voice examples and equivalents: 61
• The idiomatic use absolutely necessary for clearness: 67
• But by ellipsis an emphatic substitute for that not: 73
• Participle for clause: 79
• Older relative usages: 82
• THE ADJECTIVE: 86
• Many such cases were never full clauses mere assimilations: 92
• THE PREPOSITIONAL ADJECTIVE PHRASE: 98
• At what point the Participle may be held to become an Adjec: 99
• Construction of the Numerals special licenses: 105
• Inadequate to strong alternative contrasts or else: 106
• Formerlatter most used frequently overdone: 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
• BUT A strong word wasted on unworthy occasions: 147
• an abuse: 153
• Limitation of the Possessive: 159
• How far the inflections are useful or superfluous: 165
• Certain condensed transformations explained: 169
• The Verbal Noun in ing: 177
• Interrogative forms for mere futurity: 183
• Contingent Determination: 189
• How far auxiliary Meanings contrasted: 197
• Uninflected Peculiar mode of expressing past time: 198
• DERIVATION: 205
• Classical words from various departments: 211
• The language of the Bible might be still more simple: 217
• The chief gain is in brevity Vocabulary largely increased: 228
• extended examples: 229
• Enumeration and discussion: 234
• 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

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