s sore feet.

45. Being out of work, and as I did not wish to loaf, I started
to school.

46. He tried to study unsuccessfully, and in the end failed.

47. He built a house for his wife with seven windows.

48. He sent her an invitation to go for a ride on the back of his
business card.

49. I saw five automobiles the other night sitting on our front
door step.

50. Mrs. Smith was killed last night while cooking in a dreadful
manner.

51. Post cards are both increasing in variety and beauty.

52. He neither told John nor his father.

53. Mary told her mother, if she were needed, she would be called.

54. He bought a horse when ten years old.

55. The child the parent often rebuked.

56. Sitting on a chair the entire house could be watched.

57. Coming along the road a peculiar noise was heard by us.

58. Under the enforced sanitary laws people ceased to die gradually.

59. I knew him as a physician when a boy.

60. He came leading his dog on a bicycle.

61. When wanted he sent me a letter.

93. EMPHASIS. Emphasis demands that the sentence be so arranged
that the principal idea shall be brought into prominence and the
minor details subordinated.

1. Avoid weak beginnings and weak endings in the sentence.

Bad: He was a student who did nothing right _as a rule_.
Good: He was a student, who, _as a rule_, did nothing right.

2. A change from the normal order often makes a great change in
emphasis.

Normal: A lonely owl shrieked from a thick tree not far back of
our camp.

Changed: From a thick tree not far back of our camp a lonely owl
shrieked.

3. Where it is suitable, arrange words and clauses so as to produce
a climax; i. e., have the most important come last.

Bad: Human beings, dogs, cats, horses, all living things were destroyed.
Good: Cats, dogs, horses, human beings, all living things were
destroyed.

4. Avoid all words which add nothing to the thought.

Bad: He is universally praised by all people.
Good: He is universally praised.

Bad: The darkness was absolutely impenetrable, and not a thing could
be seen.
Good: The darkness was absolutely impenetrable.

Bad: Mr. Smith bids me say that he regrets that a slight indisposition
in health precludes his granting himself the pleasure of accepting
your invitation to come to your house to dine.
Good: Mr. Smith bids me say that he regrets that sickness prevents
his accepting your invitation to dine.

EXERCISE 69