+Direction+.—Contract these sentences by omitting the repeated modifiers and prepositions, and all the conjunctions except the last:—
1. Webster was a great lawyer, a great statesman, a great debater, and a great writer. 2. By their valor, by their policy, and by their matrimonial alliances, they became powerful. 3. Samuel Adams's habits were simple and frugal and unostentatious. 4. Flowers are so fragile, so delicate, and so ornamental! 5. They are truly prosperous and truly happy. 6. The means used were persuasions and petitions and remonstrances and resolutions and defiance. 7. Carthage was the mistress of oceans, of kingdoms, and of nations.
+Direction+.—Expand these by repeating the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, and the conjunction:—
1. He was a good son, father, brother, friend. 2. The tourist traveled in Spain, Greece, Egypt, and Palestine. 3. Bayard was very brave, truthful, and chivalrous. 4. Honor, revenge, shame, and contempt inflamed his heart.
+Direction+.—Write six sentences, each with one of these words used four times; and then contract them as above, and note the effect of the repetition and of the omission:—
Poor, how, with, through, or, and.
+Direction+.—Expand these sentences by supplying subjects:—
1. Give us this day our daily bread. 2. Why dost stare so? 3. Thank you, sir. 4. Hear me for my cause. 5. Where hast been these six months? 6. Bless me! 7. Save us.
+Direction+.—Expand these by supplying the verb or some part of it:—
1. Nobody there. 2. Death to the tyrant. 3. All aboard! 4. All hands to the pumps! 5. What to me fame? 6. Short, indeed, his career. 7. When Adam thus to Eve. 8. I must after him. 9. Thou shalt back to France. 10. Whose footsteps these?