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Higher Lessons in English - A work on english grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg;Alonzo Reed
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Several important cheerless
Many long golden
A warm turbid

+Direction+.--_Prefix to each of these nouns several appropriate
adjectives:_--

River, frost, grain, ships, air, men.

+Direction+.--_Couple those adjectives and nouns below that most
appropriately go together:_--

Modest, lovely, flaunting, meek, patient, faithful, saucy, spirited,
violet, dahlia, sheep, pansy, ox, dog, horse, rose, gentle, duck, sly,
waddling, cooing, chattering, homely, chirping, puss, robin, dove, sparrow,
blackbird, cow, hen, cackling.

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LESSON 14.

MODIFIED PREDICATE.

ADVERBS.

+Introductory Hints+.--You have learned that the subject may be modified;
let us see whether the predicate may be.

If we say, _The leaves fall_, we express a fact in a general way. But, if
we wish to speak of the time of their falling, we can add a word and say,
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