What is a conjunction? What is an interjection? Give two rules for the use of the comma (Lesson 37). What is the rule for writing abbreviations? What is the rule for the exclamation point? What is an object complement? What is an attribute complement? Illustrate both. What are the cautions for the position of the adverb? What are the cautions for the use of the adverb and the adjective?
+To the Teacher+.—See COMPOSITION EXERCISES in the Supplement-Selection from Habberton.
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LESSON 41.
ERRORS IN THE POSITION AND USE OF MODIFIERS.
+Caution+.—Phrase modifiers should be placed as near as may be to the words they modify.
+To the Teacher+.—For composition exercises with particular reference to arrangement, see Notes, pp. 172-176.
ERRORS TO BE CORRECTED.
A fellow was arrested with short hair.
I saw a man digging a well with a Roman nose.
He died and went to his rest in New York.
Wanted—A room by two gentlemen thirty feet long and twenty feet wide.
Some garments were made for the family of thick material.
The vessel was beautifully painted with a tall mast.
I perceived that it had been scoured with half an eye.
A house was built by a mason of brown stone.
A pearl was found by a sailor in a shell.
Punctuate these sentences when corrected.