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SOME, SOMEWHAT, SOMETHING. 57. Thank you, I feel ---- better this morning. 58. ---- attempted, ---- done, has earned a night's repose. 59. He resembles his father ----. 60. She felt ---- encouraged by this (these) news. 61. ---- evil beast hath devoured him. 62. He knows ---- of Arabic. 63. We came back ---- sooner than we intended. 64. If a man thinketh himself to be ---- when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 65. Dorothy looks ---- like her mother. 66. Yes, I'm ---- frightened, I admit. 67. It provoked me ----. 68. A widow, ---- old, and very poor. THIS, THESE; THAT, THOSE. 69. You will always see ---- kind of man lounging in front of taverns. 70. Take up ---- ashes. 71. ---- pile of clothes is (are) to be carried to the laundry. 72. ---- kind of tree is (are) common in Pennsylvania. 73. ---- brass tongs cost three dollars. 74. ---- class will be graduated in June. 75. In New England there is not one country-house in fifty which has not its walls ornamented with half a score of poems of ---- sort. 76. How do you like ---- style of shoe? 77. Do you like ---- sort of pen? 78. ---- sort of person is always entertaining. 79. Look at ---- assortment of knives. 80. Beware of ---- kind of dog. 81. Problems of ---- sort are very easy to solve. 82. Young ladies should let ---- sort of thing alone. FIRST, SECOND, SECONDLY, ETC. 83. I shall ---- show why we should worship God, and ---- explain how we should worship him. 84. Adam was formed ----, then Eve. 85. Let us consider ---- what the young ruler desired; ---- what he had; ---- what he lacked. 86. My ---- proposition is that the measure is unnecessary; my ---- that it is unjust; my ---- that it is unconstitutional. 87. I will not lie; I will die ----. 88. I like the old English ballads because, ----, they are very quaint; ----, they show the derivations of many of our words; and, ----, they show different steps which our language has taken in becoming what it is. ADJECTIVE or ADVERB.[112]--Illiterate persons often forget that adjectives go with nouns and pronouns, but adverbs with verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Even cultivated persons are sometimes in doubt whether to use an adjective or an adverb after certain verbs, as "grow," "look," "sound," "smell," "taste." If the added word applies to the subject of the verb, it should be an adjective; if to the verb, it should be an adverb. We say "We feel _warm_" when we mean tha
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