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66 Harry abstract nouns Adverbs of Degree ask children bad boy beat a donkey big boy bird flies bird sings blackboard sentences boy beat boy plays boys came late bravely children to point Co-ordinate Sentences Conjunctions degrees of comparison dinner dog barks Elicit from children enlarged exercises to pick feminine gender Give children exercises goes home Intransitive James Brown John Smith lesson Let children analyse let children pick let children repeat little boy loved masculine MATTER AND METHOD Moffatt's Mood Names of actions noun or pronoun object parsing Participles Passive Voice past tense pencil personal pronouns pick out nouns Plur plural possessive pronoun preposition Principal Sentence Pupil Teachers question Relative Pronouns repeat and learn shining singular slate soldier fights species stands Subject Subordinate Sentence Superlative Degree sweetly taught Tell children tence Third Person Thomas Jones Transitive Verbs words Write on black Write on blackboard Write sentences
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Page 13 - A Preposition is a word which shows the relation between a noun or pronoun and some other word or words in the same sentence : as, per agros it, he goes over the fields ; e pluribus unum, one out of many.
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Page 94 - I my, mine me thou thy, thine thee he his him she her, hers her it its it we our, ours us you your, yours you they their, theirs them LESSON XXII (b) KINDS OF PRONOUNS 1.
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Page 43 - A PREPOSITION is a word placed before a noun or pronoun to make complete sense.
Page 73 - That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.