Part 33 (1/2)

9 They passed the old castle It was al which surrounded it The castle was now being transfor with curiosity at John Peters Peters lihtly Otherwise, he looked well and happy He was ht and left

11 They rushed at him with a yell He had by this time reached the base of the fountain With a sudden wonderful leap he sprang onto the railing There he was out of reach He balanced hi the brackets which held the laent worker reminds one of the squirrel on the wheel The squirrel rushes round and round and round all day long

At the end of the day the squirrel is still a squirrel It is still rushi+ng round and round It is getting nowhere

13 The man looked at the ladder He believed he could reach it

There was a sudden flash of hope in his face His face was already scorched by the fire

14 Set to his home He crawled on top of the trucks of an express car

The car was about to leave the terminal He courted alain looks toward the hills He looks for a long ti seems to excite his apprehension He converses earnestly with the staff officer Then the two look more than once toward a poplar tree The tree stands at the top of the hill Only its top half shows The hill is on the east

16 The most important political question has been the tariff question

This has been most important for ten years It is ih prices and trusts

17 The pleasantest month is June It has flowers It has ht haze in the ats seem to flood one's soul with peace and contentment

91 The essential qualities that a sentence should possess, aside from correctness, are those of Unity, Coherence, Emphasis, and Euphony

UNITY Unity deht, and that it deal with it in such a consistent and connected ht is clearly and effectively presented Unity dehts should not be i several sentences

1 State no necessary relation to one another should not be embodied in one sentence

Bad: The house sat well back from the road, _and its owner_ was a married man

Good: The house sat well back from the road _Its owner_ was a married man

a Avoid the ”comma blunder”; that is, do not use a comma to divide into clauses what should be separate sentences, or should be connected by a conjunction

Bad: Jones lives in the country, _he_ has a fine library

Good: Jones lives in the country _He_ has a fine library

Good: Jones lives in the country _and has_ a fine library

b Avoid the frequent use of the parenthesis in the sentence

Bad: This is a city (it is called a city, though it has but twelve hundred people) that has no school-house

2 Avoid all slipshod construction of sentences

a Avoid adding a clause to an apparently coht

Bad: That is not an easy problem, _I think_

Good: That, _I think_, is not an easy problem

Good: _I do not think_ that is an easy probleain under any circumstances, _at least so I am told_

Good: He could not, _I aain under any circumstances