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action active adjective adjunct adverb appears application auxiliary become BRONTË called clauses combinations common Compare conditional construction conversion dare denoting DICK discussion distinctly Dutch ELIOT English especially examples express fact Fair felt following quotations frequent function further future GALSW gerund give given Guard hand illustration indicative infinitive instances JANE language latter less live look LYTTON Manch meaning mentioned Miss modified morning N. E. Gr nature never night Note notion noun object observed ordinary participle passive past perfect person phrases practice preceding predicate preposition present preterite pronoun question rare regarded represented seems sentence SHAK sometimes speak stand subjunctive SWEET tense THACK thing thought transitive turned understood verb VIII voice Westm wish write
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Grammar of Late Modern English, for the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, Students A Grammar of Late Modern English: For the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, Students, Hendrik Poutsma |
| Author | Hendrik Poutsma |
| Publisher | P. Noordhoff, 1926 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 812 pages |
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