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By
Adposition
  the
Determiner
  next
Adjective
  night
🌃
Noun
the
Determiner
  German
German
Adjective
  ships
Noun
  had
Auxiliary
  withdrawn
Verb
and
Coordinating conjunction
 " Australia
Australia
Proper noun
returned
Verb
  to
Adposition
  Rosyth
Proper noun
.

By the next night, the German ships had withdrawn, and "Australia" returned to Rosyth.
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next

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night

German
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German

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had

  1. simple past and past participle of have
  2. Used to form the past perfect tense, expressing an action that took place prior to a reference point that is itself in the past.
  3. As past subjunctive: would have.

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and

Australia
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Australia

  1. An island in Oceania.
  2. 1814, Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis, volume 1 (at Project Gutenberg)
  3. A country in Oceania comprising the islands of Australia, Tasmania and other smaller islands in the Pacific Ocean, as well as its precursor colony in the British Empire. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia. Capital: Canberra.
  4. A continent consisting of the islands of Australia, New Guinea and intervening islands. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.

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Rosyth

A town on the Firth of Forth in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1183).

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