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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