EXERCISE I.—­PUNCTUATION.

Copy the following sentences, and insert the COMMA where it is requisite.

EXAMPLES UNDER RULE I.—­OF SIMPLE SENTENCES.

“The dogmatist’s assurance is paramount to argument.”  “The whole course of his argumentation comes to nothing.”  “The fieldmouse builds her garner under ground.”

EXC.—­“The first principles of almost all sciences are few.”  “What he gave me to publish was but a small part.”  “To remain insensible to such provocation is apathy.”  “Minds ashamed of poverty would be proud of affluence.”  “To be totally indifferent to praise or censure is a real defect in character.”—­Wilson’s Punctuation, p. 38.

UNDER RULE II.—­OF SIMPLE MEMBERS.

“I was eyes to the blind and feet was I to the lame.”  “They are gone but the remembrance of them is sweet.”  “He has passed it is likely through varieties of fortune.”  “The mind though free has a governor within itself.”  “They I doubt not oppose the bill on public principles.”  “Be silent be grateful and adore.”  “He is an adept in language who always speaks the truth.”  “The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong.”

EXC.  I.—­“He that has far to go should not hurry.”  “Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed.”  “Feeble are all pleasures in which the heart has no share.”  “The love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul.”—­Wilson’s Punctuation, p. 38.

EXC.  II.—­“A good name is better than precious ointment.”  “Thinkst thou that duty shall have dread to speak?” “The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns.”

UNDER RULE III.—­OF MORE THAN TWO WORDS.

“The city army court espouse my cause.”  “Wars pestilences and diseases are terrible instructors.”  “Walk daily in a pleasant airy and umbrageous garden.”  “Wit spirits faculties but make it worse.”  “Men wives and children stare cry out and run.”  “Industry, honesty, and temperance are essential to happiness.”—­Wilson’s Punctuation, p. 29.  “Honor, affluence, and pleasure seduce the heart.”—­Ib., p. 31.

UNDER RULE IV.—­OF TWO TERMS CONNECTED.

“Hope and fear are essentials in religion.”  “Praise and adoration are perfective of our souls.”  “We know bodies and their properties most perfectly.”  “Satisfy yourselves with what is rational and attainable.”  “Slowly and sadly we laid him down.”

EXC.  I.—­“God will rather look to the inward motions of the mind than to the outward form of the body.”  “Gentleness is unassuming in opinion and temperate in zeal.”

EXC.  II.—­“He has experienced prosperity and adversity.”  “All sin essentially is and must be mortal.”  “Reprove vice but pity the offender.”