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Common terms and phrases
action adjectives adverbial phrases adverbs Æsop Apposition attribute auxiliary beautiful birds bobolink called clouds comma composition compound sentences Coördinate Conjunctions copulas dark Dig dug earth English Examine the following examples EXERCISES express flowers following sentences gender grammatical happy heavens ideas infinitive interrogative intransitive kind language leaves Lesson letter live look manner meaning modify nature nests never Norsemen NOTE Notice object complements Observe passive form Past Perf Perfect Participle phrases and clauses Pleonasm plural possessive preposition Present principal verb qualities rain Read the following relation relative pronouns robin second sentence seen sense serve sing singular sleep song speak speech spring statement Strong Verbs struck subject and predicate subjunctive sunlight tell tences tense things third person thou thought tion tive transitive verb tree underlined vocative Weak Verbs wind woodchuck woods word-group write
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