Part 42 (2/2)
47 oh that is what you mean is it
48 for this you will need a piece of clean white paper
49 the bible says the lord thy God is a jealous God
50 the boundary of uncle sarande river
51 theodore roosevelt is not the only strenuous man in history
52 the north quickly recovered from the civil war
53 he told mother to write to my uncle about it
54 he said then why are you here
55 in that ared er raise a picked army 56 he was told to ask the principal professor morton
57 in the same town muncy lives smith now a respected ood old oriental story needing badly a donkey for sohbor mehmed whose donkey ali knew to be idle in the stable that day i ahbor said mehmed in reply to alis request but i cannot please you e i assure you insisted ali i shall take the very best care of hihbor can you not take er i tell you the donkey is out but at this point the donkey began to bray loudly there that is the donkey braying noell said the justly indignant mehmed if you would rather take er and under no circu
59 a coroner was called upon to hold an inquest over the body of an italian the only witness was a slish the examination proceeded thus where do you live lish another shake of the head do you speak french another shake do you speak german still no answer how old are you no reply have you father and n well said the coroner i have questioned the witness in four languages and can get no answer it is useless to proceed the court is adjourned
NOTE Further exercise in punctuationwithout the marks of punctuation selections fro the proper marks
CHAPTER IX
THE PARAGRAPH
141 The PARAGRAPH is a connected series of sentences all dealing with the developeneral subject under discussion is very narrow, the paragraph may constitute the whole composition; but usually, it for with soeneral subject For each one of these subtopics a separate paragraph should be raph is to aid the reader to coroups in a logical way the different ideas to be coives rest to the eye of the reader, and e of topic at each new paragraph
142 PARAGRAPH LENGTH There is no fixed rule governing the proper length of the paragraph, but, probably, no paragraph need be th If the whole coth, it will not often need to be subdivided into paragraphs In a letter, paragraphing should beshould not be too frequent If paragraphing is too frequent, byeach minute subdivision of equal i ideas about soeneral topic
143 Sometimes a sentence or even a part of a sentence reater eraph for a proper purpose--to aid in gaining clearness
144 PARAGRAPHING OF SPEECH In a narrative, each direct quotation, together with the rest of the sentence of which it is a part, should constitute a separate paragraph This rule should be always followed in writing a conversation Exa:
A certain Scotch family cherishes this anecdote of a trip which Dr Samuel Johnson made to Scotland He had stopped at the house of this family for athe meal the hostess asked: