no
long rest between.
11. The concrete is spread in a layer, and this is about nine
inches thick, and the width being ten feet.
12. Rockwell is our postmaster, and is accommodating, but he
has a disposition to be curious.
13. At the Gatun Dam there are concrete locks, and the purpose
of these is to lift vessels into the lake.
14. They say to tourists that objects are historic but which
are not historic at all.
15. I was lying quietly in the hammock, and I happened to look
up in the tree, and there was a green bird and eating a cherry.
16. They disputed for a time, and afterward the officer became
angry, and whipped out his sword.
17. A mirage is an illusion and the traveler thinks he sees
water when there really is none.
=D. Upside-down Subordination=
In the following sentences the important idea is buried in a subordinate
clause or phrase. Rescue this main idea, express it in the main clause,
and if possible subordinate the rest of the sentence to it.
1. I spoke to her on the street, when she did not answer.
2. She thanked me for my assistance, also asking me to come and
visit her the following Sunday.
3. The water froze in the buckets, although they did not burst.
4. The crows cawed angrily and circling around in one place.
5. He is threatened with tuberculosis, although he will not
sleep in the open air.
6. We had hacked the bark, the tree dying after a few months.
7. One of the contestants was from Wendover College, who
received the prize.
8. You ask a person what a spiral staircase is, when he will go
to showing you by motions of his hand.
9. It was about three o'clock, and we decided to return home,
which we did.
10. The plumber came, stopping the leak as soon as he arrived.
11. Benton sold stamps, in which business he grew rich.
12. The sun's heat beats down upon the brick tenements, which
is terrible.
13. The chemist tested the purity of the water, but which he
found unfit to drink.
14. Montaigne wrote an essay on "Solitude," where he pointed
out the disadvantages of travel.
15. The house is set close to the edge of the bluff,
overlooking a wide bend of the Alleghany River.
16. Things had been going from bad to worse among the Indians,
and some Sioux wer
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