<Bring, fetch.> When you come, ____ the official documents with you. ____ me the scales you will find in the granary yonder.
<Broad, wide.> A man with ____ shoulders stood in the ____, open doorway.
<Bury, inter.> After they had solemnly ____ their comrade, they ____ the treasure. They also ____ their comrade's dog.
2. Consult the dictionary for the distinction between the members of each of the following pairs. Determine whether the words are correctly used in the illustrative sentences. (Some are; some are not.)
<Can, may.> Can I stay at home this afternoon, papa? Because of the floods, the train beyond doubt may not get through.
<Character, reputation.> His character among them was very good. A man's reputation can never be taken from him.
<Childish, childlike.> Your conduct is peevish; it is childishly so. Her innocence was childlike.
<Cite, quote.> He was always citing snatches of Tennyson. We might quote Hamlet's soliloquy on suicide as an example of Shakespeare's ability to go to the heart of deep questions.
<Claim, assert.> He claimed that Jefferson was our third President. He asserted that bears sleep through the winter.
<Clothing, costume.> At the masquerade ball we each wore special clothing. The mariner who had swum from the wreck to the desert shore had not a shred of costume.