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"A work on english grammar and composition"


10. One strong thing I find here below.
11. Overhead I heard a murmur.
12. To their will we must succumb.
13. Him they hanged.
14. Freely ye have received.
+Direction+.--_Write five sentences, each with one of the following nouns
or adjectives as a complement; and five, each with one of the adverbs or
phrases as predicate modifier; then transpose the ten with these same words
moved to the front, and explain the effect_:--
Giant, character, happy, him, serene, often, in the market, long and
deeply, then, under foot.
+Direction+.--_Transpose these sentences by placing the italicized words
last, and note the effect_:--
1. The clouds lowering upon our house are _buried_ in the deep bosom of the
ocean.
2. Aeneas did _bear_ from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder the old
Anchises.
3. Such a heart _beats_ in the breast of my people.
4. The great fire _roared_ up the deep and wide chimney.
+Direction+.--_Change these to the usual order_:--
1. No woman was ever in this wild humor wooed and won.
2. Let a shroud, stripped from some privileged corpse, be, for its proper
price, displayed.
3. An old clock, early one summer's morning, before the stirring of the
family, suddenly stopped.
4. Treasures of gold and of silver are, in the deep bosom of the earth,
concealed.


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