3. He used less words than the other speaker.
4. The lad was neither docile nor teachable.
5. The belief in immortality is common and universal.
6. It was a gorgeous apple.
7. The arm-chair was roomy and capacious.
8. It was a lovely bun, but I paid a frightful price for it.
+Caution+.--So place adjectives that there can be no doubt as to what you
intend them to modify. If those forming a series are of different rank,
place nearest the noun the one most closely modifying it. If they are of
the same rank, place them where they will sound best--generally in the
order of length, the shortest first.
+Direction+.--_Study the Caution, and correct these errors_:--
1. A new bottle of wine.
2. The house was comfortable and large.
3. A salt barrel of pork.
4. It was a blue soft beautiful sky.
5. A fried dish of bacon.
6. We saw in the distance a precipitous, barren, towering mountain.
7. Two gray fiery little eyes.
8. A docile and mild pupil.
9. A pupil, docile and mild.
+Direction+.--_Write correct sentences illustrating every point in these
two Cautions_.
Miscellaneous Errors.
+Direction+.--_Give the Cautions which these expressions violate, and
correct the errors_:--
1. I can bear the heat of summer, but not cold of winter.
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