Exercise:

1. Give a title to an outline which shall include the following
topics. Group the topics under two main headings, and give the
headings names.

Uses of the grape
The Vine
The Fruit Itself
How Marketed
How Cultivated

2. Place in order the sentences of the following outline on
"Why Keep a Diary?" Subordinate some of the headings to others.

A diary affords great satisfaction in future years.

We sometimes record in a diary information which proves useful.

A few lines a day will suffice.

A diary is not hard to keep.

We may find time for writing in our diary if we do not waste
time at the table or on newspapers.

We may write in our diary just before we go to bed.

A diary will bring back the past.

We all have some moments to kill.

A diary gives us pleasure even in the present.

3. Place in order the headings of the following outline on
"Ulysses S. Grant." Subordinate some of the headings to others.

Obscurity in 1861
Prominence in 1865
Patience
President
General
Perseverance and Resolution
Character
The Turning Point in His Career

=Letters=

The parts of a letter are the heading, the inside address, the greeting,
the body, the close, and the signature. For these parts good use
prescribes definite forms, which we may sometimes ignore in personal
letters, but must rigidly observe in formal or business letters.

=87a. The heading of a letter should give the full address of the writer
and the date of writing. Do not abbreviate short words, or omit Street
or Avenue.=

Objectionable: #15 Hickory, Omaha.

Right: 15 Hickory Street, Omaha, Nebraska.

Objectionable: 4/12/19; 10-28-'16; May 2nd, 1910.

Right: April 12, 1919; October 28, 1916; May 2, 1910.

The following headings are correct:

106 East Race Street,
Red Oak, Iowa,
August 4, 1916.

423 Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
May 20, 1918

Prescott, Arizona, June 1, 1920.

Note.--In personal letters the heading may be transferred to the end,
below the signature, at the left-hand side. But it must not be so
divided that the street address will appear in one place and the town
and state in another.

The "closed" form of punctuation (the use of punctuation at the ends of
the lines) is best until