o the first?

On page 26 could you make two sentences of the sentence beginning,
"Raveloe lay low among the bushy trees"? Would it be as well? Would it
be better?

On page 35 do the three parts of the compound sentence beginning, "He
would have liked," etc., belong to one sentence? Which one?

Is it right to say, "He would have liked to spring," or would it be
better to say, "He would have liked to have sprung"?

Do you think colons are used too frequently in Silas Marner? Compare
their use with their use in Hawthorne's Stories and Irving's Sketches.

In the sentence beginning, "Let him live," etc., at the bottom of page
94, is "a possible state of mind in some possible person not yet
forthcoming," a climax or an anti-climax? Why?

At the bottom of page 183 why was it necessary to crowd so much into
one sentence?

MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON MILTON.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 103.)

Re-write the sentence on page 33 beginning, "Of all poets," etc.,
making it loose. Is it better or worse?

Why does "here" stand first in the next sentence?

What poets with whom you are familiar have philosophized too much?

Is the first sentence of the paragraph beginning in the middle of page
36 periodic or loose?

How many periodic sentences in this paragraph?

In the paragraph on pages 37 and 38 trace the relation of the
succeeding sentences.

At the bottom of page 45 what is the reason for putting first in the
sentence, "of those principles"? What do you think of the massing of
the whole sentence? What has been made emphatic?

Note the last two sentences at the end of the paragraph on page 58. Is
their arrangement effective? Change one. What is the effect? (See also
the middle of page 64.)

On page 60 why did he not say, "She grovels like a beast, she hisses
like a serpent, she stings like a scorpion"?

What arrangement of clauses in the first sentence in the paragraph
beginning at the bottom of page 66? Does it add clearness?

In the same paragraph find a balanced sentence.

What advantage is there in the short sentences on page 68?

In the first sentence of the paragraph, beginning on page 71, read one
of the clauses, "by whom king, church, and aristocracy were trampled
down." What is the effect of the change?

Is the parallel construction in the last sentence beginning on page 77
good? Is it good in the last sentence of this paragraph?

In the next paragraph, why is Ma