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accented action active voice adjuncts anapestic antecedent apple apposition auxiliary perfect participle beautiful belongs Cæsar called comma common noun compound connected consonant correct defective verb denote dependent clause English expressed feet feminine finite verb flowers following sentences FUTURE PERFECT TENSE George Goodrich's grammatical predicate grammatical subject happy heaven horse imperative mood imperfect INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood interjections interrogative intransitive language letter limiting adjective live loved masculine meaning modified noun or pronoun number and person o'er object participial noun passive participle passive voice PAST PERFECT past tense pause person singular plural possessive POTENTIAL MOOD preceding predicate nominative preposition PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE proper refer relative clause relative pronoun Remark Rule xii singular number sound subjunctive subjunctive mood superlative sweet syllable Tell thee thing third person tive transitive verb trochee verse virtue vowel wish words write written