This book was first published in 1924.
1. Living grammar
2. Systematic grammar
3. Systematic grammar (continued)
4. Parts of speech
5. Substantive and adjectives
6. Parts of speech (concluded)
7. The three ranks
8. Junction and nexus
9. Various kinds of nexus
10. Nexus-substantives. Final words on nexus
11. Subject and predicate
12. Object. Active and passive
13. Case
14. Number
15. Number (concluded)
16. Person
17. Sex and Gender
18. Comparison
19. Time and tense
20. Time and tense (concluded
21. Direct and indirect speech
22. Classification of utterances
23. Moods
24. Negation
25. Conclusion
Biography
Otto Jespersen (1860-1943), an authority on the growth and structure of language, was the Chair of the English Department at the University of Copenhagen.
