Jonathan Swifts best known fulllength work, and a classic of English literature.
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Gulliver is a doctor on a ship. He travels from England to many places. He meets little people and giants, he meets people from the past and horses who can talk. He also encounters pirates and terrible storms. Will he ever return home? Will he be happy in England?
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Articles a, an, the
Nouns countable and uncountable,
plural, possessive
Pronouns subject and object, indefinite
Quantifiers someany, more
Adjectives possessive, opinion
Prepositions place, time, movement,
phrases, like
Verbs tense, aspect, form Present
Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple
regular and common irregulars, ing
forms after verbs and prepositions, can,
must for obligation, need for necessity,
imperatives, have got, would like,
common phrasal verbs, there isthere are,
know, think, hope etc that clause, like
dont like ing
Adverbs frequency, manner
Conjunctions so, before, after, when
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