+--Notice that _is, was_, and _has_ are used with nouns naming one
thing, and with the pronouns _he, she_, and _it_; and that _are, were_, and
_have_ are used with nouns naming more than one thing, and with the
pronouns _we, you_, and _they_. _I_ may be used with _am, was_, and _have_.
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Words am confused.
Cotton is exported.
Sugar are refined.
Air coined.
Teas was delivered.
Speeches were weighed.
I, we, you has been imported.
He, she, it, they have been transferred.
As verbs are the only words that assert, +every predicate+ must be a verb,
or must contain a verb.
+Naming the class+ to which a word belongs is the +first step in parsing.+
+Direction+.--_Parse five of the sentences you have written_.
+Model+.--_Poland was dismembered_.
+Parsing+.--_Poland_ is a noun because ----; _was dismembered_ is a verb
because it asserts action.
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LESSON 12.
MODIFIED SUBJECT.
ADJECTIVES.
+Introductory Hints+.--The subject noun and the predicate verb are not
always or often the whole of the structure that we call the sentence,
though they are the underlying timbers that support the rest of the verbal
bridge.
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