In a word, no one
form or method or matter is continued so long as to weary, and the reader
is kept fresh and interested throughout. Variety is restful to the reader
or hearer and therefore adds greatly to the clearness and to the force of
what is addressed to him.
TO THE TEACHER.--Question the pupils upon every point taken up in this
Lesson and require them to give illustrations where it is possible for them
to do so.
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LESSON 151.
PERSPICUITY--CRITICISM.
+General Direction+.--_In all your work in Composition attend carefully to
the punctuation_.
+Direction+.--_Point out the faults, and recast these sentences, making
them clear_:--
[Footnote: These four sentences and others in these Lessons, given just as
we found them, have been culled from school compositions.]
1. He was locked in and so he sat still till the guard came and let him
out, as soon as he stepped out on the ground, he saw the dead and dying
laying about everywhere.
2. They used to ring a large bell at six o'clock
in the morning for us to get up, then we had half an hour to dress in,
after which we would go to Chapel exercises, then breakfast, school would
commence at nine o'clock and closed at four in the afternoon allowing an
hour for dinner from one until two then we would resume our studies until
four in the afternoon.
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