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"A work on english grammar and composition"

---_Use capital letters and the proper marks of punctuation in
these sentences, and give your reasons_:--
1. next to a conscience void of offense without which by the bye life isnt
worth the living is the enjoyment of the social feelings
2. man the life boat
3. don't neglect in writing to dot your _is_ cross your _ts_ and make your
7_s_ unlike your 9_s_ and don't in speaking omit the _hs_ from such
words as _which_ _when_ and _why_ or insert _rs_ in _law_ _saw_ and
_raw_
4. the scriptures tell us take no thought anxiety for the morrow
5. The speaker said american oratory rose to its high water mark in that
great speech ending liberty and union now and forever one and
inseparable
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LESSON 149.
CAPITAL LETTERS AND PUNCTUATION--REVIEW.
+Direction+.--_Give the reason for each capital letter and each mark of
punctuation in these sentences_:--
1. A bigot's mind is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour
upon it, the more it contracts.
2. This is the motto of the University of Oxford: "The Lord is my light."
3. The only fault ever found with him is, that he sometimes fights ahead of
his orders.
4. The land flowing with "milk and honey" (see Numbers xiv.


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