A Grammar of the English Language

abridged clause accusative object adverbial clause appositional type attributive auxiliary become Ben Jonson colloquial speech common commonly Compare compound concrete conjunction construction coördinating copula dative described elliptical clauses emphatic employ examples expression feeling felt finite verb full clause gerund governing noun grammatical hence hypotaxis idea indefinite relative indicate indirect question infinitive clause interrogative intransitive Irish English John Letter literary language meaning Middle English modal modified negative nominative noun or pronoun objective predicate old simple older English older usage originally passive form past subjunctive past tense personal pronoun plural popular speech preceding predicate adjective predicate appositive predicate noun prepositional object prepositional phrase present participle principal proposition reference relation relative clause relative pronoun replaced sentence adverb Shakespeare simple dative simple genitive simple infinitive singular sometimes stands statement stress subject clause subjunctive subordinate clause substantive clause thou thought tion tive usually verbal word word-order