Part 39 (1/2)
1 Metal reflectors are only used now for cheap search-lights
2 I will only mention so Lear”
4 He only spoke to me, not to you
5 coons are only killed with the help of dogs The coon only coht-tientleman, with his ears cut close
7 Canteens were issued to the soldiers with short necks
8 We all went to the sea-shore for a little fresh air fro so-office from the place where he had purchased it in a wheelbarrow
10 He went to Geres froreat wealth
11 The three young irls' clothes
12 The maskers were nearly dressed alike
13 Erected to the memory of John Smith accidentally shot as a mark of affection by his brother
14 Lost, an uentleman with an ivory head
15 A piano for sale by a lady about to cross the channel in an oak case with carved legs
16 He blew out his brains after bidding his wife good-bye with a gun
17 The Moor, seizing a bolster, full of rage and jealousy, smothered Desdemona
18 Wanted, a handso s which he had begun at his death in an unfinished state
20 My cousin caught a crab and took it home in a pail of water which we had for our tea
21 I scarcely ever reher walk
ADVERBS between TO and THE INFINITIVE--”A careful writer will do well to avoid the construction which places the adverb between _to_ and the infinitive It is true that the construction is a common one; but it is also true that those who are most addicted to the practice are not those who count e”[131]
[131] ”Foundations,” p 140
EXERCISE Lxxx
_I sentences_--
1 Hermes caused the milk pitcher of the old couple to never be empty
2 His political enee of the President
3 He promises to earnestly try to do better
4 To really know the man we must read his books
5 Another project is to in some way modify the power of the House of Lords
6 She dwelt upon as coh conscious that there was little to veritably console
7 He proposed to either largely decrease the appropriation or to wholly do aith it
CHAPTER VII
OF PREPOSITIONS
MISUSED PREPOSITIONS[132]--A writer, in choosing the proper preposition to express his , e of English usage, but henotes helpful