5. At the distance a flood of flame from the line from thirty iron mouths
of twelve hundred yards of the enemy poured forth.
+Direction+.--_See into how many good, clear sentences you can convert
these by transposing the phrases_:--
1. He went over the mountains on a certain day in early boyhood.
2. Ticonderoga was taken from the British by Ethan Allen on the tenth of
May in 1775.
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LESSON 19.
COMPOSITION--PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES.
+Direction+.--_Rewrite these sentences, changing the italicized words into
equivalent phrases_:--
+Model+.--The sentence was _carefully_ written. The sentence was written
_with_ care.
1. A _brazen_ image was _then_ set up.
2. Those _homeless_ children were _kindly_ treated.
3. Much has been said about the _Swiss_ scenery.
4. An _aerial_ trip to Europe was _rashly_ planned.
5. The _American_ Continent was _probably_ discovered by Cabot.
+Direction+.--_Change these adjectives and adverbs into equivalent phrases;
and then, attending carefully to the punctuation, use these phrases in
sentences of your own_:--
1. Bostonian
2. why
3. incautiously
4. nowhere
5. there
6. hence
7. northerly
8. national
9. whence
10. here
11. Arabian
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