Essentials of English Grammar

abbreviation action added adjective or noun adverb qualifies adverb-clause adverbial objective antecedent appositive adjective assertion attributive adjective auxiliary belonging bird called case-form chapter co-ordinate combination complete complex sentences compound conjunctions connecting words construction defined dependent clause derivative described direct object English Grammar English Language especially example Exercise expressed factitive genitive give given hence horse imperative implies inflection interjections interrogative interrogative words intransitive joined kind language Maetzner manner meaning nominative noun or pronoun nouns and adjectives objective predicate parsing passive past participle plural possessive predicate adjective predicate noun present participle preterit pronominal adjective qualifies a verb qualifying a noun relation relative relative pronoun seen shines signify simple sentences singular sometimes speak speech stand subject and predicate subjunctive substantive-clause suffix tence tenses thee thou tion tive transitive verb usually verb-phrases Whitney William Dwight Whitney