1. I only waited for him about ten minutes.
2. She stood at the window, trying to close it with a troubled face.
3. The city is supplied with water from cold springs which flow nearly a hundred million gallons of the purest liquid that ever burst from the earth, daily.
4. The famous S. F. ice cream is made in this factory containing fifty per cent pure cream.
5. A man should not be allowed to cast a vote, who cannot read and write.
6. After taking the medicine for a short time, the appetite is improved, and a desire is created for food, that has not existed before.
7. In real value, this magazine towers head and shoulders over all others to the woman who is in charge of her home.
8. There are pages of fashion news and embroidery hints and news articles of the day that will appeal to the husband and father as the others do to the wife and daughter as well as departments for the children.
9. The number of the sewing machine is 37A with a drop head.
10. They neither are gentle nor well-mannered.
11. I only heard about the trouble yesterday.
12. He left the same station at which, thirty years before, he had arrived very humbly, in his own special car.
13. He urged his brother to buy a home in his letter.
14. The lighting system has been developed to a really remarkable degree of perfection for the trains.
15. The dynamo is so arranged that when the train is standing still or only traveling twenty miles an hour, the lamps are lighted from a storage battery.
16. The batteries must be large enough during the run to carry the entire lighting load.
17. Please send me 6 Dining Tables No. 46 that extend to ten feet as soon as possible.
18. Large trees grow on each side of the house which is a rambling affair shutting out the light.
19. They decided to give a bonus to the one doing the best work, amounting to fifty dollars.
20. We had almost got to the corner before we saw the fire.
21. I don't ever remember having seen so big a fire.
22. Remember to thoroughly oil the machine.
23. Do you need to in any way alter the machine?
24. If we expect to completely fill the order to-day, we need more help.
=Exercise 205--Omission of Necessary Words=
Sometimes a sentence is not clear because a word has been omitted that is necessary to the sense; as,