jay" mentioned last?

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 119.)

Do you think the first paragraph too long? Where can you divide it?
What is the test of the length of a paragraph?

At the bottom of page 67, do you think the first sentence of the
paragraph the topic? or is it the last sentence? Give reasons.

Is the detail at the end of the paragraph beginning on the middle of
page 71 upon the topic of the paragraph? Is it good there? How do you
know that Usher did not say "him"?

Of the paragraph on page 73, what sentence is the topic?

What proportion of the paragraphs have topic sentences? Have the
others topics? Give them for the paragraphs on the first five pages.

What method of paragraph development has Poe adopted in the paragraph
beginning in the middle of page 81? What is the relation between the
opening and the close of the paragraph? Why is the middle needed?

Do you like the second sentence of the next paragraph? What is there
disagreeable in it?

As you read along do the paragraphs run into one another? Is such a
condition good?

SILAS MARNER.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 83.)

Divide paragraphs on pages 10 and 11. What is the topic of each of the
new paragraphs?

In the first paragraph of chapter two each sentence grows out of the
one preceding. Put two lines under the words in each sentence which
are the source of the next sentence. Draw one line under the words in
each sentence which refer back to the preceding sentence.

In the paragraph beginning at the bottom of page 94, what is the topic
sentence? What relation has the last sentence to the first? What
method of development in the paragraph?

Can the paragraphs of exposition usually be divided? Do they violate
unity? If not, upon what principle can you divide them?

What is the tendency in regard to the length of paragraphs in recent
literature?

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CHAPTER VIII

SENTENCES

Definition and Classification. Simple Sentences.

A sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought.
Sentences have been classified as simple, complex, and compound. In
reality there are but two classes of sentences,--simple and compound.
It is not material to the construction of a sentence whether a
modifier be a w