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9780415402521

A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 4. Syntax (third volume)

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    9780415402521

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  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-12-26
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book was first published in 1954.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. VII
Abbreviations and List of Booksp. XIII
Introductoryp. 1
Time and Tense
English Tenses
Tense-Phrases
Exceptional Identity of Present and Preterit. Must. Need. Dare. Use
Present Tensep. 16
Present Time
Past Time
Future Time
Special Cases. Come. Die. Hear. Forget. The powers that be
Auxiliaries of the Perfect and Pluperfectp. 29
History
Come, etc.
Go
Other Verbs of Movement
Verbs of Becoming
Other Verbs
Various Remarks
Have, am done, finished
Relations between the Present and the Perfectp. 47
Retrospective and Inclusive Present
Have got
Is dead, has died
Inclusive Time, etc.
Relations between the Perfect and the Preteritp. 60
Various Subjuncts
Time not Expressly Indicated
The Perfect
Generic Preterit
Preterit for Before-Past
Perfect for Before-Future
Tenses with since
Inchoative first
The Pluperfectp. 81
Tenses of the Verbidsp. 85
Present Infinitive
Perfect Infinitive
Imperative
Participles. The First Participle
The Second Participle
Perfect Participle
Tenses of the ing
Tenses and Auxiliaries in the Passivep. 98
Introductory
Present Tense
Preterit
Perfect
Pluperfect
Infinitive
Other Auxiliaries
Imaginative Use of Tensesp. 112
Preterit
Wishes
Condition
Main Sentences
It is time he left
Pluperfect
Imaginative Tenses Continuedp. 129
Was and were in Wishes
In Conditional Clauses
In Main Sentences
Infinitive
Perfect Infinitive
Participle = Infinitive
Indirect Speechp. 151
Back-Shifting
Special Cases
Present Subjunctive
Main Verb Futuric
The Expanded Tensesp. 164
Historical Introduction
Verbs with ing, with or without on, a
Be with on, a; of after Expanded
Frequency of Expanded Tenses
Use of the Expanded Tenses
Expanded Present and Preterit
Simultaneity
Expanded Tenses. Continuedp. 191
With always, etc.
Expanded Perfect
Expanded Pluperfect
Expanded Infinitive
Expanded Imperative
Expanded Participle
Passive
Is (a) building, etc.
Is being built
Expanded Tenses. Concludedp. 214
Verbs of Movement
Going to
Other Futuric Expanded Tenses
Compounds
Expanded Forms Avoided
Have and be
Similar Constructions
Criticism
Willp. 235
The Full Verb
The Auxiliary. Forms
Various Uses
Volition, Power, Habit
Non-futuric Volition
Volitional Future
First Person
Questions
Second Person
Questions
Third Person
Conditional Clauses
Will. Continuedp. 253
Non-volitional Future
Second and Third Persons
Questions
First Person
Questions in First Person
Temporal and Conditional Clauses
Will with Perfect Infinitive
Supposition
Shallp. 265
Forms
Use
Fatal Obligation
Volitional Obligation
Commands, Threats, Promises in Second Person
In Third Person
Combined with will
Questions
Shall. Concludedp. 275
Pure Future. Solemn Predictions
Related Uses
Conditional, Relative and Temporal Clauses
First Person
Shall and will together
Questions in First Person
Questions in Second Person
Shall with Perfect Infinitive
Will and shall. Conclusions
Wouldp. 300
Real Past
Imaginative Volition. First Person
Second and Third Persons
Condition
Wish
Non-Volitional would. After-Past
Imaginative Non-Volitional would
First Person
Would like
Hypothetical Character Obscured
Various Uses
Confusion of would and had
Shouldp. 323
Real Past
After-Past
Imaginative Obligation
Imaginative Non-Obligation. In Main Sentences
First Person
Questions in Second Person
Conditional Clauses
Emotional should
Will, shall, would, should in Indirect Speechp. 339
Direct First Person
Direct Second Person
Direct Third Person
Doubtful Cases
Should in Temporal Clauses
Notional Surveyp. 352
Principal Divisions of Time
Subordinate Divisions of Time
Retrospective and Prospective
Inclusive Time
Indirect Time
Unreality and Uncertainty
Beginning and Continuance
Habit
Conclusions
(Appendix to Vol. III.) Predicatives after Particlesp. 374
As
For
To, into
From, of
At ten years old, etc.
Prepositions and Prepositional Groups with Subjuncts of Degree
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