Part 15 (1/2)

1 The Second Regi the strike, and ---- is now in ca, has six hundred members

2 John started to school last Monday; ish ---- success

3 Proud damsel, ---- shalt be proudly met I withdraw my pretensions to ---- hand until I return from the war

4 As ---- hast said, ---- lands are not endangered But hearon the piazza and atching ----

Suddenly ---- tail twitched nervously and ---- prepared to spring

6 ”Ere you remark another's sin, Bid ---- conscience look within”

7 At first one is likely to wonder where the boats are, since on entering the grove ---- is (are) able to see only a se? ---- conscience, it seeed to forgive ---- eneainst ---- neighbor?

11 The shepherd ran after a sheep and caught ---- just as ---- was juathered ---- brood under ---- wing

13 This is a book which I have never read, but one ---- is recommended by Mrs M

EXERCISE xxxV

1 Write the following note in clear and correct for the third person:--

”Mr Smith presents his compliments to Mr Jones, and finds he has a cap which isn't mine So, if you have a cap which isn't his, no doubt they are the ones”[61]

2 Write a for an acquaintance to dine with you at a certain hour in order that you may consult with him about some matter of i or declining this invitation

4 Write a forentle when it will be convenient to have you call

5 Write a notice in the third person offering a reward for the recovery of a lost article

SINGULAR or PLURAL pronOUNS[62]--The rule that a pronoun should be in the same number as its antecedent is violated most commonly in connection with such expressions as ”any one,” ”each,” ”either,” ”every,”

”man after man,” ”neither,” ”nobody” Graular

”He” (”his,” ”hieneral and include women as well as men

[61] Quoted in ”Foundations,” p 74

[62] ”Foundations,” pp 75-76

EXERCISE xxxVI

_Fill the blanks with the proper pronouns:_--

1 Many a brave man met ---- death in the war

2 Has everybody finished ---- exercise?

3 If any one has not finished let ---- hold up ---- hand

4 It is true that this is a free country; but that does not mean that every one may do as ---- please (pleases)

5 Either John or Harry will let you look on ---- book

6 Let each take ---- turn

7 If anybody but John had come, ould not have admitted ----

8 Any one ishes may have a ribbon to wear in ---- button-hole

9 Neither Bois-Guilbert nor Front de Boeuf found hiht who challenged ----

10 Every kind of animal has ---- own proper food

11 Not an officer, not a private escaped getting ---- clothes wet

12 The Senate has (have) instructed ---- conferees to yield to the demand of the conferees of the House of Representatives