Practical Exercises in English Part 30

67. It is the business of the police to ---- vice.

INSURE, SECURE.

68. Will you ---- my factory against fire?

69. For woods before and hills behind --it both from rain and wind.

70. The cargoes of ocean steamers are generally fully ----d.

71. The city is ----d by strong fortifications.

72. How are we to ---- to labor its due honor?

73. To enjoy the benefits which the liberty of the press ----s, we must submit to the evils which it creates.

INVESTIGATE, INQUIRE.

74. A committee was appointed to ---- the needs of the laboring cla.s.ses.

75. I will ---- his name and rank.

76. Edison has been busy ---- ing the nature of electricity.

77. A commission was appointed to ---- the causes of the strike.

LET, LEAVE.

78. Please ---- me take you to town.

79. We ---- that to the judgment of the umpire.

80. Pharaoh said, "I will ---- you go."

81. Why do you--- your house go to ruin?

82. Peace I ---- with you.

83. I will ---- you know my decision to-morrow.

84. Please ---- me out at the corner of Twenty-third Street.

85. ---- us free to act.

86. ---- go!

87. ---- the beggar in.

88. ---- us ---- him to himself.

89. He ---- the cat out of the bag.

LOCATE, FIND.

90. The missing man has at last been ----d by the police in Kansas City.

91. The part of the city in which the mint is ----d.

PERSUADE, ADVISE.

92. Almost thou ----st me to be a Christian.

93. I ----d him to take a walk every day, but I could not ---- him to do it.

94. Columbus was ----d to give up the thought of sailing westward in search of the Indies.

95. When in mid-ocean, Columbus was ----d to alter his course.

PREDICATE, PREDICT.

96. This very result was ----d two years ago.

97. Ambition may be ----d us the predominant trait in Napoleon's character.

98. He ----s that the month of July will be rainy.

99. Disaster to the voyage was ----d by the enemies of Columbus.

PRESCRIBE, PROSCRIBE.

100. Sylla and Marius ----d each other's adherents.

101. The doctor ----d quinine in doses of four grains each.

102. It is easier to ---- principles of conduct than to follow them.

103. The Puritans ----d theatres.

104. The number of electors is ----d by law.

PURPOSE, PROPOSE.

105. I don't ---- to let you escape so easily.

106. I ---- that we go boating.

107. We ---- d to go to-morrow, but I fear the rain will prevent us.

108. I ---- to work hard this year.

109. Ba.s.sanio ----d to pay the bond thrice over, but Shylock declined the offer, for he ----d, if possible, to lake Antonio's life.

REPULSE, REPEL.

110. He gently ---- their entreaties.

111. The charge of Pickett's troops at Gettysburg was ----d.

START, BEGIN, COMMENCE.

112. Rosalind tells Orlando to ---- his courts.h.i.+p, and he wishes to ---- with a kiss.

113. The _Spectator_ was ----(d) by Steele.

114. We have ----(d) Homer's "Iliad."

115. We have ----(d) to find out our ignorance.

116. We ----d to feel that perhaps Darcy is not very bad, after all.

117. We ----(d) in an omnibus at seven o'clock.

118. She has ----(d) to study French.

119. Franklin's voyage was ----(d) under unpleasant circ.u.mstances.

120. It ----(d) to rain in torrents.

121. The play has ----(d).

122. Hostilities have ----(d).

123. The people of Philadelphia were so much pleased with Franklin's pavement that they ----(d) paving all the streets.

SUSPECT, EXPECT, ANTIc.i.p.aTE.

124. I ---- that my grandfather was a wild lad.

125. I ---- great pleasure from our a.s.sociation in this work.

126. The burglars ---- that detectives are on their tracks, but they ---- to elude the officers by hiding in the country.

127. I was determined to ---- their fury by first falling into a pa.s.sion myself.

128. I ---- that my father will come on a late train to-night.

129. I ---- that the rogue thinks himself safe from detection.

130. The death of the general is hourly ----ed.

[106] In some of the sentences one verb or another is allowable, according to the meaning intended.

EXERCISE LXI.

_Tell why the italicized words in the following sentences are misused, and subst.i.tute for them better expressions_:--

1. The death of his son greatly _effected_ him.

2. The Prince of Wales does not _propose_ to send a challenge to the owner of the yacht Puritan.

3. He is _learning_ me to ride a bicycle.

4. I cannot _predicate_ what may hereafter happen.

5. Will you _loan_ me your sled for this afternoon?

6. It is even _stated_ on the best of authority that the Minneapolis is capable of attaining a speed of twenty-four knots an hour, and of keeping it up.