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| Childhood is the bough where slumbered Birds and blossoms many numbered; Age that bough with snow encumbered. Longfellow. | Childhood is the bough where many numbered birds and blossoms slumbered; Age encumbered that bough with snow. |
Test Cards
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| Just where the tide of battle turns | subordinate of place (locative) |
| Erect and lonely stood old John Burns | principal |
| And, buttoned over his manly breast, | (verbal attributive phrase) |
| Was a bright blue coat with a rolling collar | coordinate of principal |
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| It was terrible | principal |
| on the right | |
| raged for hours the deadly fight | coordinate of principal |
| thundered the battery's double bass | coordinate of principal |
| Difficult music for men to face | (verbal attributive phrase in apposition) |
| While on the left (round shot ploughed, etc.) | subordinate of time (temporal) begun |
| where now the graves | (While may be considered as adversative coordinate) |
| Undulate like the living waves | subordinate to subordinate (locative) 2d degree |
| That all that day unceasing swept | attributive subordinate (relative adjectival clause modifying waves) of 3d degree |
| up to the pits | |
| the rebels kept | attributive subordinate (relative pronoun omitted) of 4th degree |
| Round shot ploughed the upland glades | subordinate of time (concluded). |
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