14. In such establishments the quick delivery of merchandise is a necessity.
15. The best means of transportation must be employed, or a loss of trade will follow.
16. Any one can cite examples that prove that faults in delivery cause a loss of trade.
17. Machine service develops fewer errors than horse service (develops).
18. The area which department stores serve is being greatly increased from year to year, and not even the establishment of the parcel post has avoided the necessity for sending package merchandise too far distant for conveyance by horses.
19. Electric machines usually make the house-to-house package deliveries, and gasoline trucks, besides hauling furniture, transfer large loads from the store or warehouse to the distributing stations.
20. In one store each transfer truck is loaded twice daily with fifty trunks containing parcels.
Exercise 60—Sentence Errors
S. 1. The Baby Blunder.—In writing, one of the most elementary forms of correctness is shown in the proper division into sentences. The ability instinctively to end a sentence at the right place is called the "sentence sense." Students who do not possess it or who have not learned the difference between sentences, subordinate clauses, and phrases frequently make the mistake of setting off too much or too little for one sentence. For example, they run two sentences together as one; as,
Wrong: Motor wagons are economical, department stores of all large cities are acquiring them.