A and an, uses of, 120, 121

Absolute nominative, 82

Abstract nouns, 4, 65, 66

Active voice, 127

Adjective clauses, 243-245

Adjective elements, 221, 256, 257
Adjectives, uses of, 29-31, 37
definition, 37
position of, 33
kinds, 117, 118
participial, 40, 117, 152
limiting pronouns, 35
used as nouns, 119
used for adverbs, 199, 283
comparison of, 122-124
some not compared, 124
parsing of, 126
review of, 125

Adjuncts, 79, 84

of the subject, 220, 221
of the verb, 222-226

of the object and of the attri-
bute, 227

Adverbial clauses, 247-255

Adverbial elements, 223, 256, 257

Adverbs, uses of, 42-45

definition, 46

kinds of, 192-195

modifying adjectives, 44
modifying phrases, 193, 194
modifying statements, 43, 194

pages.

Adverbs, distinguished from attri
butes, 132, 133, 199
misuse of, 199
comparison of, 198
interrogative, 45, 194

conjunctive, 195-197, 322, 245,
250

Agreement, rules of, 185, 186,

277

Analysis of sentences, 84, 217-271
of simple sentences, 230-236
of complex sentences, 237-259
review of, 262-265

by diagrams, 266-271, 325
Anglo-Saxon, 288-291

Antecedent of a pronoun, 101, 105

agreement with, 101, 110, 282
Apposition, 81

case of nouns in, 81, 87, 91
pronouns in, 100, 103
Articles, 33, 120, 121, 283

origin of name, 319
Aryans, the, 285

As, as relative pronoun, 110
other uses, 196, 209, 210
Attribute, 132

simple, 220

adjuncts of, 227

distinguished from adverb, 132,
133, 199, 283

Auxiliary verbs, be and have, 9-13

160, 181, 279

others, 146, 181--184

in old English, 299, 300
Comparison of adverbs, 198

321

BE, parts of, 8

conjugation of, 173-175
cases after, 80, 88

uses of, 8-13, 17, 133, 319
understood, 229
But, as relative pronoun, 110
other uses, 211, 322

CALL, Conjugation of, 176-181
Can, conjugation and use of, 183,

184

Case, definition, 78
nominative, 78-82
nominative absolute, 82
nominative of address, 81

objective, 83-88, 148

analysis of, 237-259

diagramming of, 268–271
Compound elements, 207, 208,
229, 261

Compound sentences, 260, 261
diagramming of, 271
Compound words, 304-306
Conditions, 139

with or without if, 142
Conjugation of verbs, 170-185
Conjunctions, uses of, 53, 54, 202,
284
definition, 54

kinds of, 202, 203

correlative, 55, 202

position of, 55

introducing adverbial clauses,

196, 237

245, 250, 322

after be, 80, 88

GENDER, 73-77

grammatical, 299, 324
in old English, 299
masculine, 73

feminine, 74

neuter, 74
common, 74
Gerunds, 155-158

distinguished from nouns and
from participles, 155, 156
preceded by possessives, 156,
279

Greek prefixes in English, 315
Greek suffixes, 316
Grimm's law, 286, 287

Indo-European, 285
Infinitive phrase, 148
Infinitives, 15, 145

omission of to, 16, 146
adjuncts of, 148

uses of, 145, 147, 256
subjects of, in objective case,
148

Inflection, 288, 289

in early English, 298-303
of verbs, 186, 303

of personal pronouns, 98, 300-
302

Interjections, uses of, 58
definition, 59

Interrogative adjectives, 118

Interrogative adverbs, 45, 194
Interrogative pronouns, 111-113
Interrogative sentences, 22, 231
Intransitive verbs, 129, 154
Irregular comparison, of adjec-
tives, 123, 299, 300
of adverbs, 198
Irregular verbs, 165
It, uses of, 100, 240
Its, history of, 301, 302