Produced by Fox in the Stars, Chris Curnow, Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Transcriber's note | | | | Printer errors: A number of printer errors and some | | punctuation errors have been corrected, but inconsistent | | hyphenation has been left as in the original. In Chapter | | VIII, sections VII onwards were incorrectly numbered one | | greater than they should have been. This has been fixed. | | | | Text encoding: Some text viewers may need to be configured | | to use the UTF-8 encoding and a suitable font in order for | | the characters used in the poem "METRICAL FEET" to display | | correctly. Alternatively, use the Latin-1 or HTML version of | | this eBook. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ Directions for Correcting a Theme When a theme is returned to you, number each correction, and draw a heavy circle about the number. Then take another sheet of paper, and using the numbers that correspond to those on your theme, state in each case the error you made; then correct it, and give your reason for making this correction: for instance, if the mistake is marked W, i.e. a word misused, state whether the word to which the critic objected is not in good usage, or is too often repeated, or does not give the idea intended. Next, supply the proper word and show that it fits the place. Answer any questions asked by the critic and follow out any suggestion given. Put the sheet of corrections in proper form for a M.S. Fasten the sheet to your original theme and hand both to the teacher in charge of the laboratory. No credit will be given for any written theme until the mistakes are corrected. The following signs are used to indicate mistakes in a theme: C--Capital needed. lc--No capital needed. A--Mistake in use of the apostrophe. S--Word misspelled. P--Mistake in punctuation. G--Mistake in grammar. W--Wrong word used. Cons--The construction of the sentence is poor. D--The statement is ambiguous. O--Order. This may refer to arrangement of words in a sentence, of sentences in a paragraph, or of paragraphs in a theme. U--The sentence or paragraph lacks unity. X--Discover the mistake for yourself. PRACTICAL ENGLISH COMPOSITION BOOK II FOR THE SECOND YEAR OF THE HIGH SCHOOL BY EDWIN L. MILLER, A.M.