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Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Alonzo Reed;Brainerd Kellogg
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Let some express _being_ or _state of being_.

Water ----.
Wind ----.
Pens ----.
Parrots ----.
Vines ----.
Farmers ----.
Trees ----.
Ministers ----.

One verb may consist of _two, three_, or _four_ words; as, _is singing,
will be sung, might have been sung_.

Form _verbs_ by combining the words in columns 2 and 3, and add these verbs
to all the _nouns_ in column 1 with which they appropriately combine.

1 | 2 | 3
-------|------------------|------------
Laws | has been | published.
Clouds | have been | paid.
Food | will be | restored.
Health | should have been | preserved.
Taxes | may be | collected.
Books | are | obeyed.

The examples you have written are sentences; the _nouns_ are _subjects_,
and the _verbs_ are _predicates_.

As verbs are the only words that assert, _+every predicate+ must be a
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