1. Chaucer began to write at an early age, and as he was a page for some court lady, he went to France when she did.
Corrected: Chaucer began to write at an early age. Being at this time the page of a court lady, he went in her train to France.
2. Once I saw a college President as he walked upon the stage, and he held in his hand a whole basket of diplomas.
Corrected: I once saw a college President walk upon the stage holding a whole basket of diplomas in his hand.
3. A good paragraph must have unity of thought, and the different sentences of which it is composed must be logically connected, and what is most important in the paragraph must be made prominent, and what is of small consequence merely hinted at.
Corrected: A good paragraph must have unity of thought. A paragraph is unified if the different sentences in it are logically connected, and if what is most important is made prominent, what is of small consequence, merely hinted at.
PART III.
Post-diluvian Dispensations.
LESSON XVII.
(Scripture Reading Exercise.)