3. I do not know but it is a habit to
have something wanted at the shop. 4. They seemed to me very good workmen,
and always willing to stop, and talk about the job or anything else, when I
went near them. 5. Nor had they any of that impetuous hurry that is said to
be the bane of our American civilization. 6. To their credit be it said
that I never observed anything of it in them. 7. They can afford to wait.
8. Two of them will sometimes wait nearly half a day, while a comrade goes
for a tool. 9. They are patient and philosophical. 10. It is a great
pleasure to meet such men. 11. One only wishes there was some work he could
do for them by the hour.
+The Uses of Words and Groups of Words+.--How can you make the last part of
1 express more directly the cause of becoming disabled? Would you use a
semicolon to separate the sentences thus joined, or would you use a comma?
Give a reason for the comma after _days_, Find in 2 an adverb phrase that
expresses purpose. Use an equivalent adjective in place of _a couple of_.
Explain the use of _there_ in 3. What adjective may be used in place of
_good_ in _a good deal_? What long complex phrase modifies _deal_? Put
_what_ after the preposition _about_ and find a group of words that takes
the place of a noun.
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