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"A work on english grammar and composition"


PERSPICUITY--CRITICISM.
Direction.--_So place these italicized phrases that they will remove the
obscurity, and then see in how many ways each sentence can be arranged:_--
1. These designs any man who is a Briton _in any situation_ ought to
disavow.
2. The chief priests, mocking, said among themselves _with the scribes_,
"He saved," etc.
3. Hay is given to horses _as well as corn_ to distend the stomach.
4. Boston has forty first class grammar-schools, _exclusive of Dorchester_.
5. He rode to town, and drove twelve cows _on horseback_.
6. He could not face an enraged father _in spite of his effrontery_.
7. Two owls sat upon a tree which grew near an old wall _out of a heap of
rubbish_.
8. I spent most _on the river and in the river_ of the time I stayed there.
9. He wanted to go to sea, although it was contrary to the wishes of his
parents, _at the age of eighteen_.
10. I have a wife and six children, and I have never seen _one of them._
+Direction.+--_So place the italicized words and phrases in each sentence
that they will help to convey what you think is the author's thought, and
then see in how many ways each sentence can be arranged:_--
1. In Paris, every lady _in full dress_ rides.
2. I saw my friend when I was in Boston _walking down Tremont street_.


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