An English Grammar

About this eBook

Author

Sewell, James Witt, 1865-1955

Credits

Produced by Stephen Schulze and the Distributed Proofreaders Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PE: Language and Literatures: English

Subject

English language -- Grammar

Category

Text

eBook-No.

14006

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14006

Release Date

November 10, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR — BY
2. 2.W.M. BASKERVILL — AND
3. 3.J.W. SEWELL — PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.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.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.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.
9. 9.ARTICLES. — USES OF THE DEFINITE ARTICLE. — USES OF THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE. — HOW TO PARSE ARTICLES. — Exercise.
10. 10.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.
11. 11.VERBALS. — PARTICIPLES. — Exercise. — INFINITIVES. — GERUNDS. — SUMMARY OF WORDS IN -ING — Exercise.
12. 12.HOW TO PARSE VERBS AND VERBALS. — I. VERBS. — II. VERB PHRASES. — III. VERBALS. — Exercise.
13. 13.ADVERBS. — ADVERBS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO MEANING. — ADVERBS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO USE. — COMPARISON OF ADVERBS. — Exercise. — HOW TO PARSE ADVERBS. — Exercise.
14. 14.CONJUNCTIONS. — COÖRDINATE CONJUNCTIONS. — SUBORDINATE CONJUNCTIONS. — Exercises. — SPECIAL REMARKS. — Exercise.
15. 15.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.
16. 16.WORDS THAT NEED WATCHING. — WHAT. — BUT. — AS. — LIKE.
17. 17.INTERJECTIONS.
18. 18.CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO FORM.
19. 19.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.
20. 20.CONTRACTED SENTENCES.
21. 21.COMPLEX SENTENCES. — CLAUSES. — Exercise. — Adjective Clauses. — Exercise. — ANALYZING COMPLEX SENTENCES. — OUTLINE — Exercises.
22. 22.COMPOUND SENTENCES. — Exercise. — OUTLINE FOR ANALYZING COMPOUND SENTENCES. — Exercise.
23. 23.INTRODUCTORY.
24. 24.NOUNS.
25. 25.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.
26. 26.ADJECTIVES. — AGREEMENT OF ADJECTIVES WITH NOUNS. — COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORMS. — Exercise.
27. 27.ARTICLES .
28. 28.VERBS. — CONCORD OF VERB AND SUBJECT IN NUMBER. — AGREEMENT OF VERB AND SUBJECT IN PERSON. — Exercise.
29. 29.INDIRECT DISCOURSE . — Exercise.
30. 30.VERBALS .
31. 31.INFINITIVES. — Exercise.
32. 32.ADVERBS. — Exercise. — USE OF DOUBLE NEGATIVES. — Exercise.
33. 33.CONJUNCTIONS. — Exercise. — Exercise.
34. 34.PREPOSITIONS. — LIST I. — LIST II. — LIST III. — Miscellaneous Examples for Correction.
35. 35.INDEX.

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