uncles will

16. Well well I havent seen you for years But youre the same
stub nosed freckle faced good natured Tom

17. I did not stop long to consider the football togs were
nearest at hand so in they went cleated shoes trousers sweater
pads headgear and the rest

18. Today I shall outline explain and argue the subject which
has already been announced to you namely The Distribution of
Taxes in Illinois

19. His piping voice his long crooked nose his white hair
falling over the shoulders of his faded blue coat his shuffling
shambling gait as he hobbled up to Carletons Grocery with his
basket all this I shall remember as long as I live

20. We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are
created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights that among these rights are life
liberty and the pursuit of happiness

100. GENERAL EXERCISE

Improve the following sentences, making as many changes as are necessary
to express the thought clearly and accurately.

=A.=

1. It don't sound right.

2. Us fellows hadn't ought to complain.

3. The decision effects my brother and I alike.

4. Following his breakfast he went up to the office.

5. One finds that beginning on a pipe organ is much more
complicated than the piano.

6. She married before she was eighteen, she had never taken
much interest in school work

7. New Year's Eve, a young lady who I was calling upon, and
myself decided to fool the old folks.

8. Williams drove across town at full speed, this was against
the ordinances.

9. Mr. Black, who had been laying on the sofa, rose and set
down by myself.

10. The agricultural course is a study which every person
should have a great deal of knowledge along that line.

11. Swinging around the curve, the open switch was seen in
time, and directly the train stopped we rushed off of the cars.

12. I can say a little in regard to my expectations in
connection with the next four years of my life, however.
Expectations of work, pleasure, and perhaps a little sorrow.

13. An interesting experience of mine was a collection of
insects made when I studied biology.

14. A man can talk to an animal, and he learns to obey him by
repeating certain commands.

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