A Grammar of Modern English for Foreign Students

by Cyril Miller... 1. The Alphabet, 2. General Hints on Spelling, 3. The Use of Capitals, 4. General Definitions and Explanations, 5. Parts of Speech, 6. Sentences, Glauses, Phrases, 7. Construction of Sentences, 8. Inversion, 9. The Noun - Kinds-Gender-Number-Cases-Noun Equivalents, 10. The Adjective - Kinds - Attributive and Predicative Uses - Uses of Possessive Pronominal Adjectives - Uses of ' Some 'and' Any' - Comparison - The Articles - Uses of the Articles - Position of the Adjective - 'All' and 'Both' - Uses of Numerals, 11. The Pronoun - Kinds-Restrictive and Continuative Relative Pronnouns - 'So.', 12. The Verb - Kinds - 'To tell' and 'To say'- Complements - Prepositional Verbs - Anomalous Verbs - Conjugation of 'to be'- Uses of 'to be' - Conjugation of ' to have'- Uses of 'to have' - 'Shall' and 'Will'- 'Should ' and ' Would '- Conjugation of ' to do' - Uses of 'to do' - 'May,' 'Can,' 'Must; 'Ought' -  'Dare, 'Need'- 'Let '- Conjugations - Weak, Strong, and Mixed Verbs - Uses of Certain Past Participles - Verbs with mare than one Use or Meaning - Conjugation of 'to teach' - Uses of the Tenses - Voice - Mood - Conditional Sentences - The Infinitive Mood - Uses of Infinitives - Kinds of Infinitives - The Infinitive with 'to'- The Infinitive without 'to' - The Gerund - The Verbal Noun - The Participle - Forms and Functions of Gerunds and Participles - The Sequence of Tenses - Direct and Indirect Speech, 13. The Adverb - Kinds - Comparison - Uses - The Adverbial Accusative - Verbs and Adverbs in Composition, 14. The Preposition 210 Function-Prepositional Phrases - Uses of Certain Prepositions - General Notes on Certain Prepositions, 15. The Conjunction - Kinds - Noun, Adjective, and Adverb Clauses, 16. The Interjection, 17. The Same Words used as Different Parts of Speech, 18. Analysis of Sentences, 19. Punctuation, 20. Index