On page 35 do the three parts of the compound sentence beginning, “He would have liked,” etc., belong to one sentence? Which one?
Is it right to say, “He would have liked to spring,” or would it be better to say, “He would have liked to have sprung”?
Do you think colons are used too frequently in Silas Marner? Compare their use with their use in Hawthorne’s Stories and Irving’s Sketches.
In the sentence beginning, “Let him live,” etc., at the bottom of page 94, is “a possible state of mind in some possible person not yet forthcoming,” a climax or an anti-climax? Why?
At the bottom of page 183 why was it necessary to crowd so much into one sentence?
MACAULAY’S ESSAY ON MILTON.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 103.)
Re-write the sentence on page 33 beginning, “Of all poets,” etc., making it loose. Is it better or worse?
[232] Why does “here” stand first in the next sentence?
What poets with whom you are familiar have philosophized too much?
Is the first sentence of the paragraph beginning in the middle of page 36 periodic or loose?