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28 Chapters
Chapter 1 No.1
Chapter 2 No.2
Chapter 3 Instead of considering the whole body of material of which certain uses are made, one can speak of particular uses or phases of the substance; as-
Chapter 4 No.4
Chapter 5 No.5
Chapter 6 Thus, the word child is neuter in the sentence, A little child shall lead them, but is masculine in the sentence from Wordsworth,-
Chapter 7 In this particular the native endings have been largely supplanted by foreign suffixes.
Chapter 8 ess is added to many words without changing the ending of the masculine; as,-
Chapter 9 Some of them have an interesting history, and will be noted below -
Chapter 10 16), material objects may be spoken of like gender nouns; for example,-
Chapter 11 s, the ending -es is added-
Chapter 12 Examples of these are, optics, economics, physics, mathematics, politics, and many branches of learning; also news, pains (care), molasses, summons, means as,-
Chapter 13 No.13
Chapter 14 No.14
Chapter 15 one corresponding to the singular, the other unlike it.
Chapter 16 No.16
Chapter 17 FROM THE LATIN.
Chapter 18 Uses of the Nominative.
Chapter 19 Uses of the Objective.
Chapter 20 Uses of the Possessive.
Chapter 21 The Possessive.
Chapter 22 Expressing a Wish.
Chapter 23 Condition or Supposition.
Chapter 24 Subjunctive of Purpose.
Chapter 25 Subjunctive of Result.
Chapter 26 In Temporal Clauses.
Chapter 27 In Indirect Questions.
Chapter 28 Expressing a Wish. 28
Chapter 29 In a Noun Clause.
Chapter 30 VERBS.
Chapter 31 VERB PHRASES.
Chapter 32 The From Relation.
Chapter 33 Modifiers of Subject, Object, or Complement.
Chapter 34 NOMINATIVE AND OBJECTIVE FORMS.
Chapter 35 POSSESSIVE FORMS.
Chapter 36 RESTRICTIVE AND UNRESTRICTIVE RELATIVES.
Chapter 37 RELATIVE AND ANTECEDENT.
Chapter 38 OMISSION OF THE RELATIVE.
Chapter 39 THE RELATIVE AS AFTER SAME.
Chapter 40 MISUSE OF RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
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Chapter 28 Expressing a Wish. 28

227. After a verb of wishing, the subjunctive is regularly used in the dependent clause.

The transmigiation of souls is no fable. I would it were! -Emerson.

Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art!-Keats.

I've wished that little isle had wings,

And we, within its fairy bowers,

Were wafted off to seas unknown.

-Moore.

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