The Language of Literature: English Grammar in Action

3rd person plural 3rd person singular A E Housman accusative singular adjective adverb apostrophe archaic archaism Caffrey called Carfax Chaucer clause comma course dative Dative singular death dialect diction doth expression feminine noun French genitive genitive singular grammatical gender heard Holy idiom imitation infinitive inflected inflexional system inflexions irregular James Joyce King language Latin linguistic look Lord lost masculine means Middle English Milton neuter never night Ogden Nash Ohthere Old English passage past participle past tense Past tense singular person singular present phrase plural noun poem poet poetry preposition present indicative present participle present tense pronoun prose rhymes sche sentence Shakespeare singular of weak sound speech spelling stanza strong style syllables syntax T. S. Eliot tee túm tee thee things thou túm tee túm verb verbal noun verse vocabulary vowel words write wrong