each_. "Yours _respectfully_" (not _respectively_). "He handed
the commissions to Gray and Hodgins respectively."

=_Rise_ and _raise_.= _Rise_ is an intransitive verb; _raise_ is
a transitive verb. "I rise to go home." "I raise vegetables."
"I raise the stone from the ground."

=_Sit_ and _set_.= _Set_, a transitive verb, means _to cause to
sit_. "He sets it in the corner and it sits there." The past
tense of _sit_ is _sat_.

I sit down. I always set it in its place.
He sat in this very chair. I set it in its place yesterday.
He has sat there an hour. I have always set it just here.

=_Stationary_ and _stationery_.= _Stationary_ is an adjective
meaning _fixed_; _stationery_ is a noun meaning _writing
material_.

=_Statue_, _stature_, and _statute_.= _Statue_ means a _carved_
or _moulded figure_; _stature_ means _height_; _statute_ means
a _law_.

Exercise:

1. Insert _affect_ or _effect_: Noise does not ---- my
studying. It has little ---- on me. By the exercise of will
power I was able to ---- a change.

2. Insert _healthy_ or _healthful_: New Mexico has a ----
climate, Graham bread is ----. You will be ---- if you take
exercise.

3. Insert _later_ or _latter_: I will see you ----. Here are
two plans: the former is complex; the ---- is simple. Sooner or
---- you will learn the rule.

4. Insert _less_ or _fewer_: They have ---- money than we; we
have ---- pleasures than they. It seems to me there are ----
accidents.

5. Insert _principal_ or _principle_: The ---- part of a clock
is the pendulum, which swings regularly, according to a ---- of
science. My ---- reason for trusting him is that he is a man of
----. He is the ---- of the high school. The widow spends the
interest on the money, but keeps the ---- intact.

=Glossary of Faulty Diction=

=68. Avoid faulty diction.=

=_Ad_= (for _advertisement_). Avoid in formal writing and
speaking.

=_Ain't_.= Never correct. Say _I'm not_, _you_ [_we_, _they_]
_aren't_, _he_ [_she_, _it_] _isn't_.

=_All the farther_, _all the faster_.= Crude. Use _as far as_,
_as fast as_, in such sentences as "This is all the farther I
can go."

=_As_.= (a) Incorrect in the sense of _that_ or _whether_. "I
don't know _whether_ (