Oral Exercise.—The following sentences are from Mrs. Gaskell’s Cranford. As before, decide on the best word for each place in question.
1. There were rules and regulations for visiting and calls; and they were announced to any young people, who might be [stopping] in the town.
2. He must have been upwards of sixty at the time of the first visit I paid to Cranford after I had left it as a [residence].
3. She was evidently nervous from having [expected] my call.
4. My request evidently pleased the old gentleman, who took me all [round, around[32]] the place, and showed me his six and twenty cows, named after the different letters of the alphabet.
5. I can’t [wholly] remember the date, but I think it was in 1805 that Miss Jenkyns wrote the longest [series, succession] of letters.
6. She never laughed at his jokes ...; and that [aggravated] him.
7. He was very, very [mad] indeed, and before all the people he lifted up his cane and flogged Peter!
8. “Shell-fish are sometimes thought not very [healthy].”