A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 4. Syntax (third volume)
, by Jespersen,Otto
- ISBN: 9780415402521 | 0415402522
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/26/2006
This book was first published in 1954.
| Preface | p. VII |
| Abbreviations and List of Books | p. XIII |
| Introductory | p. 1 |
| Time and Tense | |
| English Tenses | |
| Tense-Phrases | |
| Exceptional Identity of Present and Preterit. Must. Need. Dare. Use | |
| Present Tense | p. 16 |
| Present Time | |
| Past Time | |
| Future Time | |
| Special Cases. Come. Die. Hear. Forget. The powers that be | |
| Auxiliaries of the Perfect and Pluperfect | p. 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 Perfect | p. 47 |
| Retrospective and Inclusive Present | |
| Have got | |
| Is dead, has died | |
| Inclusive Time, etc. | |
| Relations between the Perfect and the Preterit | p. 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 Pluperfect | p. 81 |
| Tenses of the Verbids | p. 85 |
| Present Infinitive | |
| Perfect Infinitive | |
| Imperative | |
| Participles. The First Participle | |
| The Second Participle | |
| Perfect Participle | |
| Tenses of the ing | |
| Tenses and Auxiliaries in the Passive | p. 98 |
| Introductory | |
| Present Tense | |
| Preterit | |
| Perfect | |
| Pluperfect | |
| Infinitive | |
| Other Auxiliaries | |
| Imaginative Use of Tenses | p. 112 |
| Preterit | |
| Wishes | |
| Condition | |
| Main Sentences | |
| It is time he left | |
| Pluperfect | |
| Imaginative Tenses Continued | p. 129 |
| Was and were in Wishes | |
| In Conditional Clauses | |
| In Main Sentences | |
| Infinitive | |
| Perfect Infinitive | |
| Participle = Infinitive | |
| Indirect Speech | p. 151 |
| Back-Shifting | |
| Special Cases | |
| Present Subjunctive | |
| Main Verb Futuric | |
| The Expanded Tenses | p. 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. Continued | p. 191 |
| With always, etc. | |
| Expanded Perfect | |
| Expanded Pluperfect | |
| Expanded Infinitive | |
| Expanded Imperative | |
| Expanded Participle | |
| Passive | |
| Is (a) building, etc. | |
| Is being built | |
| Expanded Tenses. Concluded | p. 214 |
| Verbs of Movement | |
| Going to | |
| Other Futuric Expanded Tenses | |
| Compounds | |
| Expanded Forms Avoided | |
| Have and be | |
| Similar Constructions | |
| Criticism | |
| Will | p. 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. Continued | p. 253 |
| Non-volitional Future | |
| Second and Third Persons | |
| Questions | |
| First Person | |
| Questions in First Person | |
| Temporal and Conditional Clauses | |
| Will with Perfect Infinitive | |
| Supposition | |
| Shall | p. 265 |
| Forms | |
| Use | |
| Fatal Obligation | |
| Volitional Obligation | |
| Commands, Threats, Promises in Second Person | |
| In Third Person | |
| Combined with will | |
| Questions | |
| Shall. Concluded | p. 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 | |
| Would | p. 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 | |
| Should | p. 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 Speech | p. 339 |
| Direct First Person | |
| Direct Second Person | |
| Direct Third Person | |
| Doubtful Cases | |
| Should in Temporal Clauses | |
| Notional Survey | p. 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 Particles | p. 374 |
| As | |
| For | |
| To, into | |
| From, of | |
| At ten years old, etc. | |
| Prepositions and Prepositional Groups with Subjuncts of Degree | |
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