Modern English Syntax

by Charles Talbut Onions

This standard introductory textbook presents in systematic form an account of current English practice. The introduction provides a full scheme of sentence analysis. Part I contains a treatment of syntactical phenomena based on the analysis of sentences; Part II classifies the uses of forms. Cross-references indicate how the two parts supplement one another.

Genres: Linguistics

Paperback

First published November 7, 1974

About the author

British philologist and lexicographer Charles Talbut Onions coedited the Oxford English Dictionary from 1914 to 1933.

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