etter sanitation and a park.

2. A guild comprised men of a single class tailors,
fishmongers, or goldsmiths.

3. Everything was favorable, it was a wheat-raising district,
there were no rival mills, the means of transportation were
excellent.

4. The personal adornments of the eighteenth century "blood"
were elaborate, wigs, cocked hat, colored breeches, red-heeled
shoes, cane, and muff.

5. The chief of the engineers reported "The route, taken as a
whole, is practicable enough, but near Clifton, where the yards
must be placed, it leads through a rocky defile."

=The Dash=

=94a. The dash may be used instead of the marks of parenthesis,
especially where informality is desired.=

Right: She fell asleep--would you believe it?--in the middle of
the lecture.

Right: That fellow actually--of course this is between you and
me--stole money from his father.

=b. Insert a dash when a sentence is broken off abruptly.=

Right: The next morning--let's see, what happened the next
morning?

=c. The dash may be used near the end of a sentence, before a summarizing
statement or an afterthought.=

Right: When you have carried in the wood and the water, and
milked the cows, and fed all the stock and the poultry, and
mended the harness--when you have done these things, you may
consider the rest of the evening your own.

Right: Barnes played a mischievous trick one day--in fact,
Barnes was always into mischief.

=d. The use of the dash to end sentences is childish.=

Childish: At dawn I went on deck--far off to the left was a
cloud, I thought, on the edge of the water--it grew more
distinct as we angled toward it--it was land--before noon we
had sailed into harbor.

Right: At dawn I went on deck. Far off to the left was a cloud,
I thought, on the edge of the water. It grew more distinct as
we angled toward it. It was land. Before noon we had sailed
into harbor.

=e. A dash should be made about three times as long as a hyphen;
otherwise it may be mistaken as the sign of a compound word.=

Exercise:

1. The boy left the package on the where did that boy leave the
package?

2. She was haughty independent as a queen in fact and she told
him no.

3. The clatter of the other typewriters, the relentless
movement of the hands o