attractively illustrated.

10. A Japanese woman going abroad at night must carry a lighted
lamp and must not speak to any one, women do not have much
freedom in Japan.

11. The sugar beets are irrigated by river water. They are
irrigated by means of furrows. The furrows run between the rows
of beets. The beets are irrigated once a week.

12. The referee asked each captain if his men were ready, after
which he blew the whistle, and the game was on, and within five
minutes our team scored a touchdown.

13. The ground should be harrowed as soon as possible after it
is plowed. It is a good plan to harrow the ground on the same
day that it is plowed, or on the day following.

14. Choose the middle of the prepared ground, which is about
eighty-five by fifty feet, as your starting point, measure
twenty-four feet east and west and set the net posts; then,
after marking off the different courts with tape, you are ready
for a good game of tennis.

15. There are two places on the island suitable for plays: one
in the bungalow and the other down on the sandy point; the
latter lends itself to the purpose readily, there are two trees
which make a splendid support for wires on which to hang the
curtain, and just east of these the ground slopes enough to
make a natural amphitheater.

=C. Excessive Coordination=

The ideas in the following sentences are loosely strung together with
coordinating conjunctions. Place the important idea in the main clause.
Subordinate other ideas by reducing each to a dependent clause, or a
phrase, or a word.

1. Chris has a new coat and it is double-breasted.

2. I had a dog, and his name was Scratcher.

3. He gave a laugh but it was forced.

4. The woodcock is so foolish and deliberately walks into a
trap.

5. The engineers fastened rafts to the piles, and which were
pulled up when the tide rose.

6. Students often sit all doubled up, and raising their feet
high on the table.

7. Dunlap is carrying a palette, but without any paint on it.

8. The government has been successful in its suit, and the
tobacco trust was dissolved.

9. The British troops had no protection against poisonous gas
and the use of gas by the enemy was unexpected.

10. I make it a rule to study one thing at least an hour and