Live Language Lessons: Three Book Series. Third BookUniversity publishing Company, 1914 |
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adjectival adjective adjunct accusative adverb aloud apple beautiful birds boys and girls called camp Christmas Carol complete verbs Compose compound sentences conjunctions cooking dative descriptive direct object example EXERCISES I Copy experience express feel Find five five sentences following sentences foregoing genitive gerund give given groups of words Henry Wadsworth Longfellow horse idioms Indians interesting intransitive kind language letter linking verbs Little Women live meaning modify mother non-predicative verbs nouns paragraph participle passive PHRASES AND CLAUSES picture play plural poem poet predicative verb preposition pupil quotation RELATIVE PRONOUNS REVIEW Rikki-tikki-tavi Rip Van Winkle river Section seemed selection SENTENCE CLEARNESS sentences containing singular sketches slang Sleepy Hollow songs speech story subject substantive subordinate clause suggestions tell tences things think proper thought tion topics transitive verbs verb forms verse Write
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