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Conjunctive

noun
1.
An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences.  Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative.






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... represents it as an adverb modifying are deposited. As where performs these two offices, it may be called a conjunctive adverb. By changing where to the equivalent phrase in which, and using a diagram similar to (8), Lesson 59, the double nature of the conjunctive ...
— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg

... The conjunctive is lyke the optative in his present and preterittes, save that we say in stede of pleust a Dieu, a ma uoullente; sy, come, quant, or ueu, sayeng for the present, sy je fuisse maintenant, comme jay congneu, ...
— An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly • Anonymous

... a form of its own; but the conjunctive particles are used as auxiliaries at the same time, and different conjunctive particles are used with different tenses. The subjunctive, having but one form, in a sentence where there are two verbs is used as the second verb.[92] So by the use of the auxiliary particles ...
— History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams



Words linked to "Conjunctive" :   closed-class word, joint, function word, subordinating conjunction, coordinating conjunction, subordinate conjunction, disjunctive, conjoin, copulative



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