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スレート
こみち
小道
しば
のこ
されており
ざっそう
雑草
のこ
っており
どうろ
道路
そば
がき
そとがわ
外側
しば
っていない
こと
おお
かった

The grass was left long and weedy in the slate walk, and very often he wasn't cutting the grass on the other side of the hedge by the road at all.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
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slate
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0
Most common form: 小路
noun
1. path; lane
noun or verb acting prenominally
2. small diameter; small radius
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0
Most common form: しば
noun
lawn; sod; turf
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0 2
'ru' godan verb, transitive verb
to cut (hair); to mow (grass); to harvest; to clip; to shear; to reap; to trim; to prune
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2
'su' godan verb, transitive verb
to leave (behind, over); to bequeath; to save; to reserve
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0
weed
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2
'ru' godan verb, intransitive verb
to remain; to be left
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1
noun
road; highway
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0
noun
1. near; close; beside; vicinity; proximity; besides; while  (often written with kana only)
2. third person
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2
Most common form: 生垣
hedge
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0
exterior; outside; outer; external; lateral  (opposite: 内側)
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2
noun
1. thing; matter  (often written with kana only)
2. incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis  (often written with kana only)
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1 2
many; numerous
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Kanji
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ショウ   こ-    お-    ちいさい small   
ドウ   トウ   みち road   
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しば lawn   
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to reap; to cut   
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ザン   のこ to remain behind   のこ to leave behind   
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ザツ   ゾウ    miscellaneous   
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ソウ   くさ grass   
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ロ   -じ street   
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セイ   ショウ    life   なま raw   いかす to enliven   いきる to live   いける to arrange flowers   うまれる to be born   う to give birth to   き pure, undiluted   お to grow, to sprout   はえる to grow, to sprout   はやす to grow, cultivate   
かき hedge   
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ガイ   ゲ   そと outside   ほか other   はず to remove, mislead   はずれる to come off, to miss   
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ソク   がわ side   
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タ   おお many   
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