Exercise 18.—Construct periodic sentences by placing dependent clauses before the following statements.
Example. They immediately started. When they heard the signal-gun, they immediately started.
1. They landed. 2. I am happy. 3. We watched. 4. The coward fled. 5. The raven croaked. 6. The flag will float. 7. The child died. 8. The poor suffered. 9. Our president died. 10. The slaves were free. 11. We quietly left. 12. They fled. 13. She returned. 14. We received the message. 15. He encouraged us.
Exercise 19.—Construct periodic sentences by filling the blanks in the following with phrases or clauses.
1. —— the village smithy stands. 2. —— he runs. 3. —— lay the little village. 4. —— to grandmother's house we go. 5. The moonlight —— flooded the room. 6. —— there was a honeysuckle arbor. 7. —— he reached home. 8. —— yet I trust him. 9. —— I will help you. 10. —— Washington —— took command. 11. —— rode the six hundred. 12. —— a youth —— passed by. 13. A traveler —— was found. 14. —— he still grasped a banner. 15. The prisoner —— made a confession.
Exercise 20.—Construct periodic sentences by filling in the blanks with phrases or clauses.
1. Far away in the forest ——. 2. Out in the country ——. 3. A city that is set on a hill ——. 4. With a look of delighted surprise ——. 5. This young lad, hard as the world had knocked him about, ——. 6. Yet, through all his fun, ——. 7. Though they spake little ——. 8. Without any discussion, ——. 9. Looking about her uneasily, ——. 10. Late that night, as I sat up pondering over all that had happened, ——.
Exercise 21.—Rewrite the following sentences, making them periodic.
1. The night wind swept by with a desolate moan. 2. The old shutters swung to and fro, screaming upon their hinges. 3. The village preacher's modest mansion rose near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled. 4. The noble six hundred rode into the jaws of death. 5. A sound came from the land between the fitful gusts of wind. 6. The silvery rain comes aslant like a long line of spears brightly burnished. 7. The snow arrives, announced by all the trumpets of the sky. 8. Great burdocks grew from the wall down to the water, so high that little children could stand upright under the loftiest of them. 9. The loveliest children ran about on the roads, playing with the gay butterflies. 10. The clear sun shone warm on the first day of spring in a little court yard. 11. An old castle looms over the narrow road. 12. The ivy grows thickly over the crumbling red walls, leaf by leaf, up to the balcony, and a beautiful girl stands there. 13. She glances up the road as she bends over the balustrade. 14. The lighthouse of Inverkaldy stood on a little rocky island, quite a distance from the mainland. 15. He rowed across the water with a cheerful heart.