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... verbs , without any morphological change , in late Tudor English . Abbott in his Shakespearian Grammar ( § 290 ) shows that the poet uses as transitive verbs the following adjectives : happy , bold , coy , false , feeble , fond , gentle ...
... verbs , without any morphological change , in late Tudor English . Abbott in his Shakespearian Grammar ( § 290 ) shows that the poet uses as transitive verbs the following adjectives : happy , bold , coy , false , feeble , fond , gentle ...
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... verbs . He , like Jonson , regarded the weak verbs as of the first conjugation , and the strong verbs as belonging to the second . He also gives a useful account of transitive and intransitive verbs , and the methods of converting the ...
... verbs . He , like Jonson , regarded the weak verbs as of the first conjugation , and the strong verbs as belonging to the second . He also gives a useful account of transitive and intransitive verbs , and the methods of converting the ...
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... Verb - phrases , in sum , replaced what , in Latin , had been inflexional forms . Few grammarians grasped that shall , will and may were verbs of incomplete predication , when they were not used as auxiliaries of tense or mood , and so ...
... Verb - phrases , in sum , replaced what , in Latin , had been inflexional forms . Few grammarians grasped that shall , will and may were verbs of incomplete predication , when they were not used as auxiliaries of tense or mood , and so ...
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Preface | 11 |
Introduction | 13 |
Social Strata and Levels of Communication | 21 |
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adjective adverbial clauses adverbs analytical language archaic Ascham auxiliary Ben Jonson Caxton Chapter Chaucer co-ordinating colloquial common compound conjunctions construction Dictionary e.g. EMIH eighteenth century Elizabethan EMIH EMIH F EMOH emphatic English Grammar English Language epithets express F₁ Faerie Queene function genitive gerund grammarians H. C. Wyld hath Henry Henry IV Ibid F idiomatic illustrate infinitive inflexion intransitive verbs inversion J.Caes Jespersen King James Bible Latin linguistic literary English literature logical London main clause meaning Middle English modern English negative noun clause Old English origin orthography Oxford participle passive periphrastic person phrases plays poetic poetry poets prepositions pronoun pronunciation prose regarded relative Revels rhetoric rhythm selfe sentence seventeenth century Shakespeare Shakespeare and Jonson Sir Thomas sixteenth century sonne Sonnet speake speech spelling Spenser structure style stylistic subjunctive subordinate clauses syllables syntactical tense thee thou tongue translation Tudor English usage verse word order writing