Exercise 17

Correct the following sentences so that they do not violate the cautions above stated:

  1. How can you say that when thou knowest better?
  2. May I and Mary go to the concert?
  3. He asked me to write to him, which I did.
  4. Grant thou to us your blessing.
  5. The train it was twenty minutes late.
  6. Mother she said I might go.
  7. Mary told her mother she was mistaken.
  8. The man cannot leave his friend, for if he should leave him he would be angry.
  9. Sarah asked her aunt how old she was.
  10. That is the man whom we named and that did it.
  11. Mr. Jones went to Mr. Smith and told him that his dog was lost.
  12. This is the book that we found and which he lost.
  13. She told her sister that if she could not get to the city, she thought she had better go home.
  14. Jack cannot see Henry because he is so short.
  15. Then Jack and George, they went home.
  16. Bring them books here.
  17. Them are all wrong.
  18. There are no men in the room but that can be bought.
  19. I have no doubt but what it was done.
  20. Them there should be corrected.
  21. I have faith in everything but that he says.
  22. I have no fears but what it can be done.
  23. Napoleon, he threw his armies across the Rhine.
  24. Thou knowest not what you are doing.
  25. It was thought advisable to exile Napoleon, which was done.
  26. A grapevine had grown along the fence which was full of grapes.
  27. Keep them people out of here.
  28. The two cars contained horses that were painted yellow.
  29. She is a girl who is always smiling and that all like.
  30. You never can tell about foreigners.
  31. They say that is not true.
  32. The cabin needed to be swept, which we did.
  33. They use those methods in some schools.
  34. It is the house that is on the corner and which is painted white.
  35. You can easily learn history if you have a good memory.
  36. How can you tell but what it will rain?
  37. He does everything but what he should do.
  38. He has everything but that he needs.
  39. It was a collie dog which we had and that was stolen.
  40. Aunt, she said that she didn't know but what she would go.
  41. Tell I and John about it.
  42. He went to his father and told him he had sinned.
  43. Dost thou know what you doest?
  44. It's appearance was deceitful.
  45. The chair was also their's.
  46. There is a slight difference between mine and your's.
  47. Which of the two is her's?
  48. They are both our's.

CHAPTER IV

ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

35. An Adjective is a word used to modify a noun or a pronoun. An Adverb is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Adjectives and adverbs are very closely related in both their forms and their use.

36. Comparison. The variation of adjectives and adverbs to indicate the degree of modification they express is called Comparison. There are three degrees of comparison.

The Positive Degree indicates the mere possession of a quality; as, true, good, sweet, fast, lovely.

The Comparative Degree indicates a stronger degree of the quality than the positive; as, truer, sweeter, better, faster, lovelier.

The Superlative Degree indicates the highest degree of quality; as, truest, sweetest, best, fastest, loveliest.