Basic English Grammar with Exercises

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Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words

 Exercise 13


Give the lexical entries of each predicate of the following sentences.
(1) a The inspector realised that the key could not open the box.
b The baby crawled from her mother to her father.
c Jack thought that the storm broke the window.
d Shannon travelled from Paris to Rome.
e Lucy cut the bread with a knife.
f My friend wrote to me that John loved Eve.
g John told a story to Peter.
h John told her that his mother was afraid of spiders.
i Sarah is proud of her sons.
j Young people are often keen on sciences.
k Mrs Smith is always angry at her neighbours.
l Some astrologists have always held the belief that the Sun moves around the
Earth.
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