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"A work on english grammar and composition"


+Direction+.--_Illustrate all these changes_.
+Direction+.--_Recast these sentences, avoiding offensive repetitions of
the same word or the same sounds_:--
1. We have to have money to have a horse.
2. We sailed across a bay and sailed up a creek and sailed back and sailed
in all about fourteen miles.
3. It is then put into stacks, or it is put into barns either to use it to
feed it to the stock or to sell it.
4. This day we undertake to render an account to the widows and orphans
whom our decision will make; to the wretches that will be roasted at the
stake.
5. The news of the battle of Bunker Hill, fought on the 17th of June in the
year of our Lord 1775, roused the patriotism of the people to a high
pitch of enthusiasm.
+Direction+.---_Using other words wholly or in part, see in how many ways
you can express the thoughts contained in these sentences_:--
1. In the profusion and recklessness of her lies, Elizabeth had no peer in
England.
2. Henry IV. said that James I. was the wisest fool in Christendom.
3. Cowper's letters are charming because they are simple and natural.
4. George IV., though he was pronounced the first gentleman in Europe, was,
nevertheless, a snob.
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LESSON 156.


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