Connectives of English Speech: The Correct Usage of Prepositions, Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns and Adverbs Explained and IllustratedFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1904 - 324 pages |
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... objects , qualities , or actions ; these are nouns , adjectives , and verbs . Such words must always make up the substance of language . Yet these are dependent for their full value and utility upon another class of words , the thought ...
... objects , qualities , or actions ; these are nouns , adjectives , and verbs . Such words must always make up the substance of language . Yet these are dependent for their full value and utility upon another class of words , the thought ...
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... object , and which it is said to " govern . ' Yet a little consideration will show that this so - called " govern- ment " is purely theoretical . In the usage with many pronouns , indeed , the control of the preposition over its object ...
... object , and which it is said to " govern . ' Yet a little consideration will show that this so - called " govern- ment " is purely theoretical . In the usage with many pronouns , indeed , the control of the preposition over its object ...
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... object ) case when it is construed with a preposition . We might often more fittingly speak of the consequent than of the object of an English preposition . In one respect , indeed , the English usage of a noun with a preposition ...
... object ) case when it is construed with a preposition . We might often more fittingly speak of the consequent than of the object of an English preposition . In one respect , indeed , the English usage of a noun with a preposition ...
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... object or consequent , in order to ex- press any completeness of thought . The preposition is as truly a connective as the conjunction . Its least office is to limit the use and relation of the word that follows it . Its chief value is ...
... object or consequent , in order to ex- press any completeness of thought . The preposition is as truly a connective as the conjunction . Its least office is to limit the use and relation of the word that follows it . Its chief value is ...
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... object . But the idiom is stronger than the grammarians . The schoolboys have invented the rebellious paraphrase , " Never use a preposition to end a sentence with . " The people go on using the prohibited idiom in conversation every ...
... object . But the idiom is stronger than the grammarians . The schoolboys have invented the rebellious paraphrase , " Never use a preposition to end a sentence with . " The people go on using the prohibited idiom in conversation every ...
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A. P. STANLEY Adjectives adverb amid Anglo-Saxon antecedent beneath Brutus BYRON Cæsar CARLYLE clause Compare connection CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS derived direction Distinctions EMERSON English Grammar vol equivalent Essays expression fact force friends GEORGE ELIOT hath Henry Hist idea implied infinitive interrogative IRVING J. R. SEELEY JEAN INGELOW John Julius Cæsar king language lect LONGFELLOW LOWELL MACAULAY England vol MAETZNER English Grammar meaning Merchant of Venice Middlemarch midst MILTON Paradise Lost motion N. P. WILLIS never night noun object Paradise Lost bk participle person place or space R. H. DANA reason reference relative pronoun SCOTT Lady sense sentence Sermons SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE Merry Wives ship side soul speak speech Standard Dictionary Tempest act TENNYSON thee things thou thought tion unto usage various relations Venice act verb whence whither WHITTIER Windsor act Wives of Windsor words WORDSWORTH