EXERCISE II.—PUNCTUATION.
Copy the following sentences, and insert the COMMA where it is requisite.
EXAMPLES UNDER RULE VI.—OF WORDS PUT ABSOLUTE.
"The night being dark they did not proceed." "There being no other coach we had no alternative." "Remember my son that human life is the journey of a day." "All circumstances considered it seems right." "He that overcometh to him will I give power." "Your land strangers devour it in your presence." "Ah sinful nation a people laden with iniquity!"
"With heads declin'd ye cedars homage pay;
Be smooth ye rocks ye rapid floods give way!"
UNDER RULE VII.—OF WORDS IN APPOSITION.
"Now Philomel sweet songstress charms the night." "'Tis chanticleer the shepherd's clock announcing day." "The evening star love's harbinger appears." "The queen of night fair Dian smiles serene." "There is yet one man Micaiah the son of Imlah." "Our whole company man by man ventured down." "As a work of wit the Dunciad has few equals."
"In the same temple the resounding wood
All vocal beings hymned their equal God."
EXC. I.—"The last king of Rome was Tarquinius Superbus." "Bossuet highly eulogizes Maria Theresa of Austria." "No emperor has been more praised than Marcus Aurelius, Antoninus."
EXC. II.—"For he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith." "Remember the example of the patriarch Joseph." "The poet, Milton, excelled in prose as well as in verse."