Part 37 (1/2)

Bad: The darkness was absolutely i could be seen

Good: The darkness was absolutely irets that a slight indisposition in health precludes his granting hi your invitation to come to your house to dine

Good: Mr Srets that sickness prevents his accepting your invitation to dine

EXERCISE 69

_Reconstruct all of the following sentences that violate the principles of emphasis:_

1 Children, women, and uilt by means of marked ood work, although some have not

4 Will you please start up the norance leads to a condition of blissful happiness, it would be folly to seek a condition of great wisdo train yesterday, was killed by being run over

7 As a maker of violins he has never had an equal before nor since

8 All his friends were collected together

9 The field was so wet that we could not play on it, except occasionally

10 Feere superior to him as a sculptor

11 Railway companies, trolley companies, cable coe

12 Books were his constant coaunt mass of stones, rock, and earth, which falls upon your vision at the edge of the horizon of your view, is known by the appellation of Maxon Mountain

14 The noise of trains is heard ceaselessly fro at all

15 He tried to do right so far as we know

16 That knowledge is the iain beyond all else

94 EUPHONY Euphony de sound

1 Avoid repeating the same word in a sentence

Bad: He _commanded_ his son to obey his _commands_

2 Avoid words and combinations of words that are hard to pronounce

Bad: He seized quickly a thick stick

3 Avoid a rhyme and the repetition of a similar syllable