| 单词 | partitive |
| 例句 | All is used with of, like a partitive; as, all of a thing, all of us. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z It is not a predicate adjective, but a partitive genitive after hwæt. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary The partitive article is used precisely as in French. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence In prose, this superlative is not now very common; but the poets still occasionally use it, for the sake of their measure; and it ought to be noticed that the simple adjective is not partitive. The Grammar of English Grammars These three parts are: first, nouns—the names of things; second, verbs—the names of events; and, third, the partitives—or the words which express the relations of things to events. Stories from Everybody's Magazine The explanation generally given is, that of is partitive, and that the expression is equivalent to one friend of my friends. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition In all such expressions, the name of the thing divided, is understood in the partitive word; for a part of any thing must needs be of the same species as the whole. The Grammar of English Grammars All these may also be used partitively; as, "Nearly all of us." The Grammar of English Grammars Dr. Johnson seems to suppose that the partitive use of these words makes them nouns; as, "They have much of the poetry of Mecænas, but little of his liberality."—DRYDEN: in Joh. The Grammar of English Grammars I deny that of is here the sign of the possessive, and affirm that it is taken partitively, in all examples of this sort. The Grammar of English Grammars How is the sense of nouns commonly made indefinitely partitive? The Grammar of English Grammars |
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