The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1881 - 220 sayfa |
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Sayfa 73
... SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD . Half . " It might have been expressed in one half the space . ' We see at a glance that one here is superfluous . Hanged - Hung . The irregular form , hung , of the past participle of the verb to hang is most used ...
... SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD . Half . " It might have been expressed in one half the space . ' We see at a glance that one here is superfluous . Hanged - Hung . The irregular form , hung , of the past participle of the verb to hang is most used ...
Sayfa 84
... Subjunctive . " I see the signal , ' is unconditional ; if I see the signal , ' is the same fact ex- pressed in the form of a condition . The one form is said to be in the indicative mood , the mood that simply states or indicates the ...
... Subjunctive . " I see the signal , ' is unconditional ; if I see the signal , ' is the same fact ex- pressed in the form of a condition . The one form is said to be in the indicative mood , the mood that simply states or indicates the ...
Sayfa 182
... subjunctive mood is much less used now than it was a hundred years ago is certain , but that it is obso- lescent is very far from certain . It would not be easy , I think , to find a single contemporary writer who does not use it . That ...
... subjunctive mood is much less used now than it was a hundred years ago is certain , but that it is obso- lescent is very far from certain . It would not be easy , I think , to find a single contemporary writer who does not use it . That ...
Sayfa 183
... subjunctive . * " A future result or consequence is expressed by the subjunctive in such instances as these : ' I will wait till he return ' ; ' no fear lest dinner cool ' ; ' thou shalt stone him with stones , that he die ' ; ' take ...
... subjunctive . * " A future result or consequence is expressed by the subjunctive in such instances as these : ' I will wait till he return ' ; ' no fear lest dinner cool ' ; ' thou shalt stone him with stones , that he die ' ; ' take ...
Sayfa 184
... subjunctive : ' I wish he were here ' ( which he is not ) . " An intention not yet carried out is also subjunctive : ' The sentence is that you be imprisoned . ' " The only correct form of the future subjunctive is— ' if I should . ' We ...
... subjunctive : ' I wish he were here ' ( which he is not ) . " An intention not yet carried out is also subjunctive : ' The sentence is that you be imprisoned . ' " The only correct form of the future subjunctive is— ' if I should . ' We ...
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