5. The conjunction that when needed for clearness. Wrong: “I wish such a beefsteak as that one over there may never be served on this table.” What is the ambiguity here, at the beginning?
Oral Exercise.—Indicate how by the addition of words each sentence may be corrected:—
1. Altogether it was a day like unto which the memory of the oldest inhabitant could not recall.
2. He received his early education at Brownsville and Whitesville academy, remaining about a year at each place.
3. There was a minister who, being informed by the church officials that they had raised his salary $100, declined to accept it.
4. The following great reductions indicate the heavy losses we are taking closing out the balance of our stock.
5. This mutual esteem was shown by their cordial welcome of the guests as well as the uniform courtesy shown by the latter.
6. Poor Evelina was obliged to choose between a blue and green dress.
7. Streaks of lightning and claps of thunder rattled through the narrow streets of Paris.
8. I am an historical painter by profession, and living for some time at a villa near Rome.