Part 43 (2/2)

29 Bruce spoke of hilish

30 I could ---- buy ---- borrow it

31 He has no love ---- veneration for his superiors

32 There was no place so hidden ---- so reue did not find it

33 We need not, ---- do not, complain of our lot

34 He could not deny ---- he had borrowed money

35 There is no question ---- the universe has bounds

36 A corrupt govern sin

37 She thinks, I regret to say, of little else ---- clothes

38 O fairest flower, no sooner blown ---- blasted

39 There is no other hat here ---- o with you

41 ---- Virgil was the better artist, Hoenius

42 He has not decided ---- he will let e

43 Sheep are white ---- black

44 The King has no arbitrary power; your Lordshi+ps have not ---- the Coratitude ---- of honor could bind hio boating

47 Scarcely had she left the house ---- she returned

48 He was punished, ---- he was guilty

49 He was punished, ---- he was not guilty

50 We cannot go ---- we finish our task

51 ---- the rain came down in torrents, we started for the lake

52 She could ---- dance ---- sing, ---- she played the piano

53 I do not know ---- I shall walk ---- ride

54 Hardly had he left the room ---- the prisoner attempted to escape

55 The chances are ten to one ---- he will forget it

56 Stand up so ---- you can be seen

OMITTED CONJUNCTIONS--Careless writers sorammar or to the sense A coood if not better than that”--a sentence in which ”as” is oood” The best way to correct the sentence is to recast it, thus: ”This is as good as that, if not better”

EXERCISE LxxxVIII

_Correct the faults in these sentences:_--

1 Ralph is as young or younger than Harry

2 Cedar is more durable but not so hard as oak

3 I never heard any one speak more fluently or so wittily as he

4 She is fairer but not so ah not so old, he is wiser than his brother

REDUNDANT CONJUNCTIONS--[148] Careless writers sometimes insert conjunctions that are useless or worse than useless

A common form of this fault is the use in certain cases of ”and” or ”but”

before the words ”who,” ”which,” ”when,” or ”where,” which are thee was accepted by Orlando, a young man little known up to that ti” If the relative clause introduced by ”who,” ”which,” ”when,” or ”where” is to be joined to a preceding relative clause, the conjunction is proper: as, ”The challenge was accepted by Orlando, a young man _as little known at that ti”

[148] See ”Foundations,” pp 208-211