ABSTRACT

This book is the seventh and last volume of that great work by Otto Jespersen the first volume of which was published in 1909. This volume looks at English Syntax including subjects such as sentence structure, word classes, word order, cases, comparison and determination.

chapter Chapter I|12 pages

Word-Classes

chapter Chapter II|55 pages

Sentence-Structure and Word-Order

chapter Chapter III|18 pages

Sentence-Structure. Concluded

chapter Chapter IV|48 pages

Person

chapter Chapter V|46 pages

Sex and Gender

chapter Chapter VI|43 pages

Case

chapter Chapter VII|19 pages

Case in Pronouns (Continued)

chapter Chapter VIII|25 pages

Case in Nouns

chapter Chapter IX|36 pages

Case (Continued)

chapter Chapter X|25 pages

Comparison

chapter Chapter XI|36 pages

Comparison (Continued)

chapter Chapter XII|68 pages

Determination and Indetermination (The Articles)

chapter Chapter XIII|8 pages

Articles before Junctions

chapter Chapter XIV|50 pages

Stage Two The Definite Article

chapter Chapter XV|14 pages

Stage Three. Zero

chapter Chapter XVI|36 pages

Proper Names

chapter Chapter XVII|42 pages

Quantifiers

chapter Chapter XVIII|25 pages

Mood

chapter |16 pages

Technical Terms

(Mainly Syntactical)