1. If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.
2. Faults are thick, where love is thin.
3. Happy is he that is happy in his children.
4. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
5. O, there be players that I have seen play,—and heard others praise, and that highly—not to speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature’s journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.—Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.
The following sentences were written by a pupil in the first year of the high school. If there are mistakes in punctuation, explain what principle is violated:—
1. When the time came to retire; my uncle was shown to the tower-room.
2. A short time afterward when he was travelling through Normandy; he came to an old castle standing in the midst of a park.
3. The postilion was ordered to drive to the castle; where my uncle received a welcome from the little Marquis.
4. This seemed the very night for ghosts; with the wind howling outside and whistling through the ill-fitting casement.