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English Grammar

by Lillian Kimball Stewart

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Author
Stewart, Lillian Kimball, 1860-1943
Title
English grammar
Original Publication
New York: American Book Company, 1912.
Credits
The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PE: Language and Literatures: English
Subject
English language -- Grammar
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 76768
Release Date
August 30, 2025
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.ENGLISH GRAMMAR
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.I. DECLARATIVE SENTENCES. SUBJECT AND PREDICATE
  5. 5.II. SIMPLE SUBJECT. NOUNS
  6. 6.III. CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS
  7. 7.IV. VERBS
  8. 8.V. PRONOUNS
  9. 9.VI. COMPOUND SUBJECT AND COMPOUND PREDICATE
  10. 10.VII. TRANSPOSED SUBJECT AND PREDICATE
  11. 11.VIII. INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES
  12. 12.IX. ADJECTIVES
  13. 13.X. ADVERBS
  14. 14.XI. PHRASES. ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES
  15. 15.XII. PREPOSITIONS
  16. 16.XIII. TERM OF ADDRESS. EXCLAMATORY NOUN
  17. 17.XIV. IMPERATIVE SENTENCES
  18. 18.XV. INTERJECTIONS
  19. 19.XVI. EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES
  20. 20.XVII. CONJUNCTIONS
  21. 21.XVIII. CLAUSES. SIMPLE SENTENCES
  22. 22.XIX. COMPOUND SENTENCES
  23. 23.XX. DEPENDENT CLAUSES. COMPLEX SENTENCES
  24. 24.XXI. REVIEW: CLASSIFICATION OF SENTENCES
  25. 25.XXII. REVIEW: PARTS OF SPEECH
  26. 26.XXIII. TRANSITIVE VERBS. OBJECT OF VERB
  27. 27.XXIV. INTRANSITIVE VERBS ASSERTING ACTION
  28. 28.XXV. INTRANSITIVE VERBS ASSERTING BEING. NOUNS AS SUBJECTIVE COMPLEMENTS
  29. 29.XXVI. ADJECTIVES AS SUBJECTIVE COMPLEMENTS
  30. 30.XXVII. REVIEW OF VERBS
  31. 31.XXVIII. NOUNS: NUMBER
  32. 32.XXIX. NOUNS: GENDER
  33. 33.XXX. POSSESSIVE NOUNS
  34. 34.XXXI. NOUNS: CASE
  35. 35.XXXII. NOUNS: THE APPOSITIVE
  36. 36.XXXIII. APPOSITIVE ADJECTIVES
  37. 37.XXXIV. INDIRECT OBJECT
  38. 38.XXXV. ADVERBIAL NOUN PHRASES
  39. 39.XXXVI. ADVERBIAL NOUN PHRASES
  40. 40.XXXVII. OBJECTIVE COMPLEMENT
  41. 41.XXXVIII. PARSING OF NOUNS — Summary of Case Relations
  42. 42.XXXIX. PERSONAL PRONOUNS
  43. 43.XL. USES OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS
  44. 44.XLI. USES OF POSSESSIVE PERSONAL PRONOUNS
  45. 45.XLII. COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS
  46. 46.XLIII. INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS
  47. 47.XLIV. DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
  48. 48.XLV. LIMITING ADJECTIVES
  49. 49.XLVI. COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES
  50. 50.XLVII. REVIEW OF ADJECTIVES
  51. 51.XLVIII. ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS
  52. 52.XLIX. VERBS: TENSE
  53. 53.L. THE INDICATIVE MODE
  54. 54.LI. THE INTERROGATIVE FORM OF THE INDICATIVE MODE
  55. 55.LII. THE SUBJUNCTIVE MODE
  56. 56.LIII. THE IMPERATIVE MODE
  57. 57.LIV. PRINCIPAL PARTS OF VERBS. REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS
  58. 58.LV. VOICE
  59. 59.LVI. THE PASSIVE VOICE
  60. 60.LVII. THE PROGRESSIVE CONJUGATION
  61. 61.LVIII. THE EMPHATIC CONJUGATION
  62. 62.LIX. PARSING OF VERBS
  63. 63.LX. THE AUXILIARY VERBS SHALL AND WILL
  64. 64.LXI. DEFECTIVE VERBS. VERB PHRASES
  65. 65.LXII. DIRECT AND INDIRECT DISCOURSE
  66. 66.LXIII. AGREEMENT OF VERB AND SUBJECT. COLLECTIVE NOUNS
  67. 67.LXIV. REVIEW OF VERBS: PARSING
  68. 68.LXV. CLASSIFICATION OF ADVERBS. SIMPLE ADVERBS
  69. 69.LXVI. CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS
  70. 70.LXVII. SUMMARY OF ADVERBS
  71. 71.LXVIII. COÖRDINATE CONJUNCTIONS
  72. 72.LXIX. SUBORDINATE CONJUNCTIONS
  73. 73.LXX. ADVERBIAL CLAUSES OF TIME, PLACE, AND MANNER
  74. 74.LXXI. ADVERBIAL CLAUSES OF CAUSE, PURPOSE, AND RESULT
  75. 75.LXXII. ADVERBIAL CLAUSES OF CONDITION AND CONCESSION
  76. 76.LXXIII. ADVERBIAL CLAUSES OF COMPARISON
  77. 77.LXXIV. ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES
  78. 78.LXXV. ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
  79. 79.LXXVI. RELATIVE PRONOUNS
  80. 80.LXXVII. NOUN CLAUSES
  81. 81.LXXVIII. INTRODUCTORY WORDS OF NOUN CLAUSES
  82. 82.LXXIX. REVIEW OF CLAUSES
  83. 83.LXXX. REVIEW OF PRONOUNS
  84. 84.LXXXI. INFINITIVES
  85. 85.LXXXII. INFINITIVES AS SUBJECTS OR COMPLEMENTS
  86. 86.LXXXIII. INFINITIVES AS MODIFIERS OF NOUNS
  87. 87.LXXXIV. INFINITIVES AS PARTS OF “DOUBLE OBJECTS.” AS MODIFIERS OF VERBS
  88. 88.LXXXV. OTHER USES OF INFINITIVES
  89. 89.LXXXVI. SUMMARY OF INFINITIVES
  90. 90.LXXXVII. ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES CONTAINING INFINITIVE PHRASES
  91. 91.LXXXVIII. PARTICIPLES
  92. 92.LXXXIX. PARTICIPLES MODIFYING NOUNS
  93. 93.XC. PARTICIPIAL PHRASES IN THE PREDICATE
  94. 94.XCI. ABSOLUTE PARTICIPIAL PHRASES
  95. 95.XCII. AGREEMENT OF PARTICIPLES. OTHER WORDS IN -ING
  96. 96.XCIII. SUMMARY OF PARTICIPLES
  97. 97.XCIV. ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES
  98. 98.XCV. ANTICIPATIVE SUBJECT
  99. 99.XCVI. ELLIPTICAL SENTENCES
  100. 100.XCVII. REVIEW OF ANALYSIS
  101. 101.GENERAL REVIEW — Exercise 1 — Exercise 2 — Exercise 3 — Exercise 4
  102. 102.INDEX

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