cans are our national neighbors, and we as a
nation should understand them.
5. The city man knows nothing about a cow, only that it has
horns.
6. He got up early in order that he might be able to see the
sunrise.
7. The tenderfoot saw the funnel-shaped cloud when he made for
a cyclone cellar.
8. Men fear what they do not understand, and a coward is one
who is ignorant.
9. Hinting did not influence her; then he tried scolding.
10. The valet spilled the wine, and the duke started up with an
oath.
11. While he writhed on the ground, he was not really hurt.
12. He will not cash the check without you indorse it.
13. We want this work done by the first of April, so please
send an estimate soon.
14. He had traveled everywhere, and he had a vivid recollection
of only three scenes: Niagara Falls, the Jungfrau, and Lake
Como.
15. I never hear him talk but he makes me angry.
16. Animals have some of the same feelings as human beings
have.
17. It was four o'clock and we decided to return and be home
for supper.
=E. Repetition of Connectives=
In the following sentences determine whether repetition is desirable or
undesirable, and change the sentences accordingly.
1. With the coming of meal time, the potatoes are removed from
the fire with a fork with a long handle.
2. His clothes were brushed and neat, but patched and
repatched. But still he could be bright and cheery.
3. To no other magazine do I look forward to the arrival of its
new issue, more than I do to the _World's Work_.
4. At the time the book was written, I believe Forster was
considered to be almost the best biographer living at that
time.
5. The freshman has no spirit until the sophomores have
provoked him until he resists until he finds that he has
spirit.
6. Some socialists are against the present system of
initiative, referendum, and recall, but advocate a system much
like it but applied in a different way.
7. The gun with which the Germans bombarded Paris with had a
range of seventy-five miles.
8. Basketball is a game that I have played for years, and I am
greatly interested in.
9. This is the lever which throws the switch which directs the
train that takes the track that goes to Boston.
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