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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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Two thieves divided the booty among themselves.
I am angry at him.

+Caution+.--Do not use two negative, or denying, words so that one shall
contradict the other, unless you wish to affirm.

ERRORS TO BE CORRECTED.

I haven't no umbrella.

Correct by dropping either the adjective _no_ or the adverb _not_; as, I
have _no_ umbrella, or I have _not_ an umbrella.

I didn't say nothing.
I can't do this in no way.
No other emperor was so wise nor powerful.
Nothing can never be annihilated.




LESSON 42.

ANALYSIS AND PARSING.

1. Brutus stabbed Caesar.
2. Man is an animal.
3. Washington captured Cornwallis.
4. Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
5. Balboa discovered the Pacific ocean.
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