Practical Exercises in English eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 193 pages of information about Practical Exercises in English.

Practical Exercises in English eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 193 pages of information about Practical Exercises in English.

MOST, ALMOST. 37.  I have ——­ finished my lesson. 38.  You will find me in my office ——­ any day. 39. ——­ men dread death. 40.  We come here ——­ every summer. 41.  We have ——­ done. 42.  This wheat is ——­ too thick. 43.  Though I saw ——­ everything else, I failed to see Hagenbeck’s trained
    animals.
44. ——­ everybody has imperfect eyes. 45.  The old man’s strength is ——­ gone. 46. ——­ boys like play. 47.  It rains in some places ——­ every day. 48. ——­ all flowers are beautiful.

NEAR, NEARLY. 49.  It isn’t ——­ finished yet. 50.  We are ——­ the end of the lesson. 51.  I am ——­ suffocated. 52.  We are not ——­ through our work. 53.  He is not ——­ so young as I. 54.  I will answer you as ——­ as I can remember. 55.  We are ——­ the end of the term; our school-days are ——­ over. 56.  Mr. Patterson came very ——­ breaking the greatest record ever made in
    America.

SOME, SOMEWHAT, SOMETHING. 57.  Thank you, I feel ——­ better this morning. 58. ——­ attempted, ——­ done, has earned a night’s repose. 59.  He resembles his father ——. 60.  She felt ——­ encouraged by this (these) news. 61. ——­ evil beast hath devoured him. 62.  He knows ——­ of Arabic. 63.  We came back ——­ sooner than we intended. 64.  If a man thinketh himself to be ——­ when he is nothing, he deceiveth
    himself.
65.  Dorothy looks ——­ like her mother. 66.  Yes, I’m ——­ frightened, I admit. 67.  It provoked me ——. 68.  A widow, ——­ old, and very poor.

THIS, THESE; THAT, THOSE. 69.  You will always see ——­ kind of man lounging in front of taverns. 70.  Take up ——­ ashes. 71. ——­ pile of clothes is (are) to be carried to the laundry. 72. ——­ kind of tree is (are) common in Pennsylvania. 73. ——­ brass tongs cost three dollars. 74. ——­ class will be graduated in June. 75.  In New England there is not one country-house in fifty which has not
    its walls ornamented with half a score of poems of ——­ sort.
76.  How do you like ——­ style of shoe? 77.  Do you like ——­ sort of pen? 78. ——­ sort of person is always entertaining. 79.  Look at ——­ assortment of knives. 80.  Beware of ——­ kind of dog. 81.  Problems of ——­ sort are very easy to solve. 82.  Young ladies should let ——­ sort of thing alone.

FIRST, SECOND, SECONDLY, ETC. 83.  I shall ——­ show why we should worship God, and ——­ explain how we
    should worship him.
84.  Adam was formed ——­, then Eve. 85.  Let us consider ——­ what the young ruler desired; ——­ what he had;
    ——­ what he lacked.
86.  My ——­ proposition is that the measure is unnecessary; my ——­ that it
    is unjust; my ——­ that it is unconstitutional.
87.  I will not lie; I will die ——. 88.  I like the old English ballads because, ——­, they are very quaint;
    ——­, they show the derivations of many of our words; and, ——­, they
    show different steps which our language has taken in becoming what
    it is.

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