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adjectives adverbs Birds called Change CHAPTER compound cross death Edited English EXAMPLE express fall father fear fell fire flowers forms future Gerunds give governed green grow hand heard horse hour IMPERFECT indic INDICATIVE MOOD Infinitive INFLEXION king laid leaves letters lies live look meaning mood morn never night nominative notes nouns OBJECT passive past PERFECT person play poor PREDICATE preposition present pronouns qualifying relations rise river rose round Rule seen Plural sentences serve shilling ship sing Singular sleep snow sorrow sounds speak stand stood SUBJECT subjunctive Supply sword SYNTAX Tell TENSE thee things thou thought transitive tree turn verb VERBAL voice waiting walk waves wind wood writing young
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The beginners' drill-book of English grammar |
| Author | James Burton (schoolmaster.) |
| Publisher | Rivingtons, 1878 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 113 pages |
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