has ----(d) to study French.
119. Franklin's voyage was ----(d) under unpleasant circumstances.
120. It ----(d) to rain in torrents.
121. The play has ----(d).
122. Hostilities have ----(d).
123. The people of Philadelphia were so much pleased with Franklin's
pavement that they ----(d) paving all the streets.

SUSPECT, EXPECT, ANTICIPATE.
124. I ---- that my grandfather was a wild lad.
125. I ---- great pleasure from our association in this work.
126. The burglars ---- that detectives are on their tracks, but they ----
to elude the officers by hiding in the country.
127. I was determined to ---- their fury by first falling into a passion
myself.
128. I ---- that my father will come on a late train to-night.
129. I ---- that the rogue thinks himself safe from detection.
130. The death of the general is hourly ----ed.

[106] In some of the sentences one verb or another is allowable, according
to the meaning intended.

EXERCISE LXI.

_Tell why the italicized words in the following sentences are misused, and
substitute for them better expressions_:--

1. The death of his son greatly _effected_ him.
2. The Prince of Wales does not _propose_ to send a challenge to the owner
of the yacht Puritan.
3. He is _learning_ me to ride a bicycle.
4. I cannot _predicate_ what may hereafter happen.
5. Will you _loan_ me your sled for this afternoon?
6. It is even _stated_ on the best of authority that the Minneapolis is
capable of attaining a speed of twenty-four knots an hour, and of
keeping it up.
7. Miss Duhe _claims_ that the clairvoyant divulged many things that were
known to her only.
8. It is evident that whatever _transpired_ during the interview was
informal and private.
9. There is little in the "Elegy" to _locate_ the church-yard which is
referred to.
10. He says he cannot _except_ the invitation.
11. Is the Governor's wife _stopping_ at the Springs Hotel?
12. Dr. H.'s well-known views have led him to _champion_ the cause
of Dr. B.
13. I do not propose to _disrespect_[1] the Sabbath.
14. Macaulay says Voltaire _gestured_[1] like a monkey.
15. I _love_ to see kittens play.
16. I _expect_ he must have arrived last night.
17. I _calculate_ it will rain soon.
18. This dry weather _argues_ ill for the corn crop.
19. Mrs. Dennett broke open the door, and found a startling state of
affairs. In the hallway her daughter Grace was lying prostrate, and
seemed to be in an unc