Adjectives have long suffered from bad press. For many years, English teachers have been fond of telling students that "adjectives are the enemy of nouns, and adverbs are the enemy of everything else." While it's still advisable to heed your English teacher's advice on most other matters, The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for the Extraordinarily Literate proves that breaking certain rules can make written and spoken language that much livelier, adding much-needed color, style, and adornment.
One book is never enough to explore the wide range of amazing adjectives! The crazy cats deliver loads of additional examples to illustrate the potent power of adjectives to describe the wonderful world around us--and our incredible imaginations. Brian P. Cleary's playful verse and Brian Gable's comical cats turn traditional grammar lessons on end. Each adjective is printed in color for easy identification. Read this book aloud and share the delight of the sense--and nonsense--of words.
Of making many English grammars there is no end; nor should there be till theoretical scholarship and actual practice are more happily wedded. In this field much valuable work has already been accomplished; but it has been done largely by workers accustomed to take the scholar's point of view, and their writings are addressed rather to trained minds than to immature learners. To find an advanced grammar unencumbered with hard words, abstruse thoughts, and difficult principles, is not altogether an easy matter. These things enhance the difficulty which an ordinary youth experiences in grasping and assimilating the facts of grammar, and create a distaste for the study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Historical Outline | Preliminary Definitions | The Alphabet | The English Orthographical System | ETYMOLOGY | Classification of Words—Definitions | Inflexion | Nouns—Common and Proper | Gender of Nouns | Number—Singular and Plural | Case—Nominative, Possessive, Objective Declensions in Anglo-Saxon and in Chaucer Adjectives.—Classification of Adjectives | Inflexion of Adjectives | Inflexion of Adjectives in Anglo-Saxon and in Chaucer | Comparison of Adjectives | Articles | Pronouns.—Classification of Pronouns | Personal Pronouns | Ancient Forms | Demonstrative Pronouns | Ancient Forms | The Relative Pronoun that | The Interrogative and Relative Pronouns | Inflexion of Who—Ancient Forms | Indefinite Pronouns | Distributive Pronouns | Reflective and Possessive Pronouns : Verbs—Transitive and Intransitive | Auxiliary Verbs | Active Voice and Passive Voice | Moods | Gerunds and Participles | Tenses | Number and Person | Conjugation of Verbs - Strong and Weak Verbal Inflexions in Anglo-Saxon and in Chaucer Shall, Will, May, Must, Can, &c. The Verbs Have, Be, and Do | Ancient Forms | Conjugation of a Verb at full length | Adverbs | Prepositions | Conjunctions | Interjections | COMPOSITION AND DERIVATION OF WORDS SYNTAX | Sentence—Subject—Predicate Relations of Words to one another | Subject and Predicate | Object | Complex Sentences | Summary of the Rules of Syntax | ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES | APPENDIX—Constituents of English PDF VERSION by Pumukl
In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics
and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with
syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the
relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the
relationship between meaning and
the positions of adjectives and
adverbs in nominal and verbal projections; and the fine-grained
semantics of different subclasses of adverbs and adverbs. Its goals are
to provide a comprehensive vision of the linguistically significant
structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and
adverbs, to
highlight the similarities between these two categories, and to signal
the importance of a careful and detailed integration of lexical and
compositional semantics.
The editors open the book with an
overview of current research before introducing and contextualizing the
remaining chapters. The work is aimed at scholars and advanced students
of syntax, semantics, formal pragmatics, and discourse. It will also
appeal to researchers in philosophy,
psycholinguistics, and language acquisition interested in the syntax and semantics of adjectives and adverbs.
In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics
and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with
syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the
relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the
relationship between meaning and
