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Definition of Correlatives
1. correlative [n] - See also: correlative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Correlatives
Literary usage of Correlatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever, Easley Stephen Jones (1922)
"CLEARNESS BY PARALLEL STRUCTURE correlatives Conjunctions that are used in pairs
... correlatives should usually be followed by elements parallel in form; ..."
2. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"correlatives 152. Many Pronouns, Pronominal Adjectives, and Adverbs have
corresponding demonstrative, ... Such parallel forms are called correlatives. ..."
3. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"If correlatives of this sort shew themselves as in part superfluous, and only
serve rhetorical aims, the copulative, on the other hand, seems indispensable ..."
4. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"correlatives 152. Many Pronouns, Pronominal Adjectives, and Adverbs have
corresponding demonstrative ... Such parallel forms are called correlatives. ..."
5. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"But usually, as heir and ancestor are correlatives as to inheritances, so a
testator and executor or intestate and administrator as to chattels are ..."
6. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1881)
"Many Pronominal Adverbs, like the pronouns from which they are formed (191), are
correlatives of each other, as will be seen in the following TABLE OF ..."
7. Live Language Lessons by Howard Roscoe Driggs (1917)
"204 correlatives Conjunctions that go in pairs are called correlatives. ...
These are the principal correlatives: although — yet where — there either — or ..."
8. Geodesy: Including Astronomical Observations, Gravity Measurements, and by George Leonard Hosmer (1919)
"Method of correlatives. When there are many condition equations, the method of
substitution is likely to prove laborious. ..."
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