+Direction+.—Study the Caution, and relieve these sentences of their ambiguity:—
+Model+.—The lad cannot leave his father; for, if he should leave him, he would die = The lad cannot leave his father; for, if he should leave his father, his father would die. Lysias promised his father never to abandon his friends = Lysias gave his father this promise: "I will never abandon your (or my) friends."
1. Dr. Prideaux says that, when he took his commentary to the bookseller,
he told him it was a dry subject.
2. He said to his friend that, if he did not feel better soon, he thought
he had better go home.
(This sentence may have four meanings. Give them all, using what you may suppose were the speaker's words.)
3. A tried to see B in the crowd, but could not because he was so short. 4. Charles's duplicity was fully made known to Cromwell by a letter of his to his wife, which he intercepted. 5. The farmer told the lawyer that his bull had gored his ox, and that it was but fair that he should pay him for his loss.
+Caution+.—Do not use pronouns needlessly.
+Direction+.—Write, these sentences, omitting needless pronouns:—
1. It isn't true what he said. 2. The father he died, the mother she followed, and the children they were taken sick. 3. The cat it mewed, and the dogs they barked, and the man he shouted. 4. Let every one turn from his or her evil ways. 5. Napoleon, Waterloo having been lost, he gave himself up to the English.
+Caution+.—In addressing a person, do not, in the same sentence, use the two styles of the pronoun.
+Direction+.—Study the Caution, and correct these errors:—