Description
This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.
Table of Contents
1. Introductory
2. Present tense
3. Auxiliaries of the perfect and pluperfect
4. Relations between the present and the perfect
5. Relations between the perfect and the preferit
6. The pluperfect
7. Tenses of the verbids
8. Tenses and auxiliaries in the passive
9. Imaginative use of tenses
10. Imaginative tenses continued
11. Indirect speech
12. The expanded tenses
13. Expanded tenses continued
14. Expanded tenses concluded
15. Will
16. Will. Continued
17. Shall
18. Shall. Concluded
19. Would
20. Should
21. Will, shall, would, should in indirect speech
22. Notional suvey
23. Predicatives after particles
