CHAPTER II. SYNTAX, pp. 60-170

Case 60

Number 65

Comparatives and superlatives 70

Relatives 75-107

Defining and non-defining relative clauses 75

_That_ and _who_ or _which_ 80

_And who_, _and which_ 85

Case of the relative 93

Miscellaneous uses of the relative 96

_It ... that_ 104 Participle and gerund 107

Participles 110

The gerund 116-133

Distinguishing the gerund 116

Omission of the gerund subject 125

Choice between gerund and infinitive 129

Shall and will 133-154

The pure system 134

The coloured-future system 136

The plain-future system 138

Second-person questions 139

Examples of principal sentences 141

Substantival clauses 143

Conditional clauses 149

Indefinite clauses 151

Examples of subordinate clauses 152

Perfect infinitive 154

Conditionals 156

_Doubt that_ 158

Prepositions 161