5. Ease and grace in writing are, of all the acquisitions made in school,
the most difficult and valuable.
+Direction+.--_Write three sentences, each with the following noun or
adjective or phrase in its usual place in the predicate, and then
transpose, placing these words wherever they can properly go_:--
Mountains, glad, by and by.
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LESSON 53.
ARRANGEMENT--TRANSPOSED ORDER.
+Direction+.--_Restore these sentences to their usual order by moving the
object complement and the verb to their customary places, and tell what is
lost by the change_:--
1. Thorns and thistles shall the earth bring forth.
2. "Exactly so," replied the pendulum.
3. Me restored he to mine office.
4. A changed France have we.
5. These evils hath sin wrought.
+Direction+.--_Transpose these sentences by moving the object complement
and the verb, and tell what is gained by the change_:--
1. The dial-plate exclaimed, "Lazy wire!"
2. The maiden has such charms.
3. The English character has faults and plenty of them.
4. I will make one effort more to save you.
5. The king does possess great power.
6. You have learned much in this short journey.
+Direction+.--_Write six transposed sentences with these nouns as object
complements, and then restore them to their usual order_:--
Pause, cry, peace, horse, words, gift.
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