Lessons in Language and Grammar, Book 2

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Contents

Adverbial Use of Nouns
216
Modifying Complements
218
The Infinitive and the Participle
241
Regular and Irregular Verbs
243
Redundant and Defective Verbs XLVII Conjugation The Auxiliaries
247
Conjugation The Verb Have
250
Conjugation The Verb Write
253
Conjugation The Verb
255
Forms of the Verb rogative
257
Forms of the Verb Progressive and Passive
258
The Auxiliaries Shall and Will
260
Notes on the Tenses
262
Clauses and Connectives
265
The Sentence Simple Complex and Compound
268
The Adjective Clause
270
The Adverbial Clause LIX LX The Noun Clause
272
Construction of the Infinitive and the Participle
275
Independent Elements
280
Rules of Syntax PAGE 241 243 247 247 250 253 255 257 258 260 262 265
281
Words Difficult to Parse
282
PUNCTUATION I The Use of Capital Letters
286
Italics III The Use of Abbreviations IV The Use of the Apostrophe V The Use of the Hyphen 286
288
Terminal Marks
291
The Comma in a Series 291
293
The Comma with Words of Address
295
25
296
The Comma with Words in Pairs and after Yes and XI Double Quotation Marks 295 296
297
The Comma with Parenthetical Expressions
303
The Comma with Words in Contrast
305
SECTION PAGE XVI The Comma with Words in the Same Construction
306
The Comma in Compound Elements
307
The Comma with Adverbial Elements
309
The Comma after the Subject
310
The Comma with Independent Elements
311
The Use of the Semicolon
312
The Use of the Colon
316
The Use of Parentheses and Brackets
317
The Use of the Dash
318
An Exercise in Punctuation
319
ΙΟΙ 102
323
26
324
31 33 39 41 43
325
49
326
107
328
Agreement of a Pronoun with its Antecedent 222 223 225 226 227 228 230
329
108
330
113
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