pply the proper word and show that it
fits the place. Answer any questions asked by the critic and follow out
any suggestion given. Put the sheet of corrections in proper form for a
M.S. Fasten the sheet to your original theme and hand both to the
teacher in charge of the laboratory. No credit will be given for any
written theme until the mistakes are corrected.

The following signs are used to indicate mistakes in a theme:

C--Capital needed.

lc--No capital needed.

A--Mistake in use of the apostrophe.

S--Word misspelled.

P--Mistake in punctuation.

G--Mistake in grammar.

W--Wrong word used.

Cons--The construction of the sentence is poor.

D--The statement is ambiguous.

O--Order. This may refer to arrangement of words in a sentence, of
sentences in a paragraph, or of paragraphs in a theme.

U--The sentence or paragraph lacks unity.

X--Discover the mistake for yourself.

PRACTICAL
ENGLISH COMPOSITION

BOOK II
FOR THE SECOND YEAR OF THE HIGH SCHOOL

BY
EDWIN L. MILLER, A.M.

PRINCIPAL OF THE NORTHWESTERN HIGH SCHOOL
DETROIT, MICHIGAN

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY EDWIN L. MILLER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

THE RIVERSIDE PRESS
CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS
U . S . A

PREFACE

This volume is the second in a series of four, each of which has been
planned to cover one stage in the composition work of the
secondary-school course. These books have been designed to supply
material adapted as exactly as possible to the capacity of the pupils.
Most of the exercises which they contain have been devised with the idea
of reproducing in an elementary form the methods of self-instruction
which have been employed by successful writers from Homer to Kipling.
Nearly all of them have been subjected to the test of actual classroom
use on a large scale. They may be used independently or as supplementary
to a more formal textbook. Each volume contains rather more work than an
ordinary class can do in one hundred recitations.

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