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Additional Assignment Write adjective clauses adjustment letter adverbial clause advertisement Answer appeal argument Arionola asking attention bank Billboard advertising Boston bought Bring to class business English called Carbon Paper Classified Advertisements coffee comma Company complimentary close compound sentences courteous Curtis Publishing Company customer's Dear Sir definite denotes Dictate your letter Dictation Assignment Dictate example explanation expression follow-up letter following sentences Gentlemen give High School illustrations inclosed independent statements inducement interest manufacturer ment Neolin noun Oral Assignment paragraph participial phrase payment person persuasion phonographs plural preceding principles pronouns Pullman Company punctuation reference regarding relative pronouns Review Assignment sales letter salesman school paper selling shoes Street talk tell thought tion tires to-day tone truly verb words Write a letter Write the adjustment Write the following written
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Page 223 - Oregon Pennsylvania — Rhode Island — South Carolina. . . South Dakota. . . . Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia.... Wisconsin Wyoming BALANCIKG THE CURRICULUM.
Page 4 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth ; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money ; and laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation, and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
Page 68 - An Adverb is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Page 4 - When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one.
Page 4 - I might have bought with the rest of the money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation, and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure. This, however, was afterwards of use to me, the impression continuing on my mind ; so that often, when I was tempted to buy some unnecessary thing, I said to myself, Don't give too much for the whistle ; and so I saved my money.
Page 4 - My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth. This put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and they laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
Page 76 - Words of one syllable or words of more than one syllable accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Page 76 - All words of more than one syllable ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, and accented on the last syllable, double that consonant in derivatives : as, commit, committee ; compel, compelled; appal, appalling; distil, distiller.
Page 4 - Don't give too much for the whistle; and I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and observed the actions of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who gave too much for the whistle.
Page 63 - Will in the first person and shall in the second and the third, express promise, willingness, or determination.