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LESSON 54.
ARRANGEMENT—TRANSPOSED ORDER.
+Direction+.—Restore these sentences to the usual order by moving the adverb and the verb to their customary places, and note the loss:—
1. Then burst his mighty heart. 2. Here stands the man. 3. Crack! went the ropes. 4. Down came the masts. 5. So died the great Columbus of the skies. 6. Tictac! tictac! go the wheels of thought. 7. Away went Gilpin. 8. Off went his bonnet. 9. Well have ye judged. 10. On swept the lines. 11. There dozed the donkeys. 12. Boom! boom! went the guns. 13. Thus waned the afternoon. 14. There thunders the cataract age after age.
+Direction+.—Transpose these sentences by moving the adverb and the verb:—
1. I will never desert Mr. Micawber. 2. The great event occurred soon after. 3. The boy stood there with dizzy brain. 4. The Spaniard's shot went whing! whing! 5. Catiline shall no longer plot her ruin. 6. A sincere word was never utterly lost. 7. It stands written so. 8. Venus was yet the morning star. 9. You must speak thus. 10. Lady Impudence goes up to the maid. 11. Thy proud waves shall be stayed here.
+Direction+.—Write ten sentences in the transposed order, using these adverbs:—
Still, here, now, so, seldom, there, out, yet, thus, never.
+Direction+.—Restore these sentences to the usual order by moving the phrase and the verb to their customary places, and note the loss:—