6.  Search-lights would be an indispensable factor in a night attack. 7.  Bishop Hatto lived in a country where all the productions were
   spoiled by the weather.
8.  The whole of the stupid boys in Germany struggle to pass this test. 9.  The police are looking for the guilty parties. 10.  A lot of men from the country came to town to see the circus. 11.  In the shed is a mixture[44] of oars, seats, sails, rudders, booms,
    and gaffs.
12.  They had to take the balance of his arm off. 13.  Addison’s essays were a great factor in improving the morals
    of his age.
14.  General Manager Payson Tucker at once sent detectives to the scene, and
    every effort will be made to secure the guilty parties.
15.  For a few days Coxey’s army was a success as a show. 16.  If it were not for him and a few others of his ilk the matter
    would have been settled long ago.

[42] “Foundations,” p. 51. [43] Ibid., p. 52. [44] Consult a good dictionary.

EXERCISE XXV.[45]

Illustrate by original sentences the correct use of these words:—­

Home, party, series, statement, verdict, acceptation, actions, advance, advancement, avocation, completion, allusion, illusion, observation, observance, proposal, proposition, solicitude, solicitation, stimulus, stimulant, capacity, adherence, adhesion, amount, quantity, number, centre, middle, character, complement, compliment, conscience, consciousness, council, counsel, custom, habit, deception, deceit, egoist, emigration, immigration, enormity, enormousness, esteem, estimate, falsity, falseness, import, invention, discovery, limitation, majority, plurality, negligence, neglect, novitiate, organization, organism, produce, product, production, prominence, predominance, recipe, requirement, requisition, requisite, resort, resource, secretion, sewage, sewerage, situation, site, speciality, specialty, union, unity.

[45] TO THE TEACHER.—­It is easy to underestimate the difficulty which this exercise presents to pupils.  In assigning the lesson care must be taken not to call for more of this kind of work than can be done well.  Constructing a sentence to illustrate the correct use of a word is a valuable exercise, but it is a difficult one; and persons who know the correct use of a word may be put to their wit’s end to illustrate that use.  It will be well to assign this exercise little by little, while the class works through the definitions and exercises on pages 23-41; or else to select from the list the words on which the class needs most drill.  With some pupils it may be wise to omit the exercise entirely.

CHAPTER IV

OF PRONOUNS

POSSESSIVE FORMS.[46]—­No apostrophe is used in forming the possessive case of personal pronouns.  We write “ours,” “yours,” “hers,” “its,” “theirs.”  “It’s” is a contraction for “it is.”