ring some one approach.

Right: He stopped short, hearing some one approach. [Or]
Hearing some one approach, he stopped short.

Wrong: The winters are cold. Although the summers are pleasant.

Right: Although the summers are pleasant, the winters are cold.

Wrong: The hunter tried to move the stone. Which he found very
heavy.

Right: The hunter tried to move the stone, which he found very
heavy. [Or] The hunter tried to move the stone. He found it
very heavy.

Note.--A sentence must in itself express a complete thought. Phrases or
subordinate clauses, if used alone, carry only an incomplete meaning.
They must therefore be attached to a sentence, or restated in
independent form. Elliptical expressions used in conversation may be
regarded as exceptions: Where? At what time? Ten o'clock. By no means.
Certainly. Go.

Exercise:

1. My next experience was in a grain elevator. Where I worked
for two summers.

2. The parts of a fountain pen are: first, the point. This is
gold. Second, the body.

3. The form is set rigidly. So that it will not be displaced
when the concrete is thrown in.

4. There are several reasons to account for the swarming of
bees. One of these having already been mentioned.

5. Since June the company has increased its trade three per
cent. Since August, five per cent.

=Incomplete Constructions=

=2. Do not leave uncompleted a construction which you have begun.=

Wrong: You remember that in his speech in which he said he
would oppose the bill.

Right: You remember that in his speech he said he would oppose
the bill. [Or] You remember the speech in which he said he
would oppose the bill.

Wrong: He was a young man who, coming from the country, with
ignorance of city ways, but with plenty of determination to
succeed.

Right: He was a young man who, coming from the country, was
ignorant of city ways, but had plenty of determination to
succeed.

Wrong: From the window of the train I perceived one of those
unsightly structures.

Right: From the window of the train I perceived one of those
unsightly structures which are always to be seen near a
station.

Exercise:

1. As far as his having been deceived, there is a difference of
opinion on that matter.

2. The fact that he was alwa