om every one was enthusiastically calling
for hurried to the platform.

Exercise:

1. The man who laughs half the time does not understand the
joke.

2. Playing football in many ways improves the mind.

3. When she reached home much to her disgust the door was
locked.

4. When the lightning struck for the first time in my life I
was afraid.

5. The landlord wrote that he would if the rent were not paid
in thirty days eject the tenant.

=Misplaced Word=

=27. Such an adverb as _only_, _ever_, _almost_, should be placed near
the word it modifies, and separated from words which it might falsely
seem to modify. Such a conjunction as _nevertheless_, if required with a
clause, should usually be placed near the beginning.=

Illogical: I only need a few dollars.

Right: I need only a few dollars.

Illogical: I don't ever intend to go there again.

Right: I don't intend ever to go there again. [Or] I intend
never to go there again.

Illogical: She has the sweetest voice I nearly ever heard.

Right: She has nearly [or _almost_] the sweetest voice I ever
heard.

Tardy use of conjunction: I intend to try. I do not expect to
accomplish much, however.

Right: I intend to try. I do not, however, expect to accomplish
much.

Exercise:

1. Students are only admitted to one lecture.

2. This is the smallest book I almost ever saw.

3. He is so poor he hasn't any food, scarcely.

4. She had one dress that she never expected to wear.

5. The difficulties were tremendous. He said that he would do
his best, nevertheless.

=Split Construction=

=28. Elements that have a close grammatical connection should not be
separated awkwardly or carelessly. These elements are: (a) subject and
verb, or verb and object; (b) the parts of a compound verb; and (c) the
parts of an infinitive.=

Awkward: One in the struggle for efficiency should not become a
machine.

Better: In the struggle for efficiency one should not become a
machine.

Awkward: What use of an education could a girl who married a
penniless rogue and afterwards knew
nothing but hard labor, make?

Better: What use of an education could a girl make who married
a penniless rogue and afterward knew nothing but hard labor?

Crude: He was unable to even so