--_Study the Caution, and relieve these sentences of their
ambiguity_:--
+Model+.--The lad cannot leave his father; for, if he should leave _him_,
_he_ would die = The lad cannot leave his father; for, if he should leave
_his father, his father_ would die. Lysias promised his father never to
abandon _his_ friends = Lysias gave his father this promise: "I will never
abandon _your_ (or _my_) friends."
1. Dr. Prideaux says that, when he took his commentary to the bookseller,
he told him it was a dry subject.
2. He said to his friend that, if he did not feel better soon, he thought
he had better go home.
(This sentence may have four meanings. Give them all, using what you may
suppose were the speaker's words.)
3. A tried to see B in the crowd, but could not because he was so short.
4. Charles's duplicity was fully made known to Cromwell by a letter of his
to his wife, which he intercepted.
5. The farmer told the lawyer that his bull had gored his ox, and that it
was but fair that he should pay him for his loss.
+Caution+.--Do not use pronouns needlessly.
+Direction+.--_Write, these sentences, omitting needless pronouns_:--
1. It isn't true what he said.
2. The father he died, the mother she followed, and the children they were
taken sick.
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