My heartfelt thanks to all these kind scholars! To the student I may perhaps offer two pieces of advice: to read in general the examples before the rules, and, if he is not particularly interested in phonetics, to skip Chapters II–VI until he has finished the rest of the book.

Niels Haislund, M.A., assisted me in copying the manuscript, and gave me valuable assistance in reading the proofs. I must mention Dr.E.R.Edwards, who read nearly the whole of the manuscript Professors C.A.Bodelsen and G.E.K.Braunholtz, Miss Isabel Fry, Dr.G.E.Fuhrken, and Miss J.Young, Ph.D., who all of them read a greater or lesser number of chapters and communicated to me their remarks. Parts of the manuscript have been submitted to various friends, to whose kind criticisms I owe a great debt of gratitude. After some years of hesitation I have now made the attempt, but of course the responsibility for its shortcomings rests exclusively upon me. Preface THE appearance of this book is due to urgent appeals from some English friends (among them Professors W.E.Collinson, G.C.Moore Smith, and R.A.Williams), who asked me to bring out a one-volume grammar embodying the principles explained in The Philosophy of Grammar and partly carried out in the seven volumes of my Modern English Grammar. ISBN 2-5 (Adobe e-Reader Format) ISBN 0-8 (Print Edition) Enquiries should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned address: ISBN 8-2 Master e-book ISBN Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ” This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to. Essentials of English Grammar Otto Jespersenįirst published March 1933 by George Allan & Unwin Ltd Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.

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