be light.'"

+_Brackets_+.--Use brackets [ ] to enclose what, in quoting another's
words, you insert by way of explanation or correction.

+_Example_+.--The Psalmist says, "I prevented [anticipated] the dawning of
the morning."

SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS.

+_To the Teacher_+.--It is very profitable to exercise pupils in combining
simple statements into complex and compound sentences, and in resolving
complex and compound sentences into simple statements. In combining
statements, it is an excellent practice for the pupil to contract, expand,
transpose, and to substitute different words. They thus learn to express
the same thought in a variety of ways. Any reading-book or history will
furnish good material for such practice. A few examples are given below.

+_Direction_+.--Combine in as many ways as possible each of the following
groups of sentences:--

+_Example_+.--This man is to be pitied. He has no friends.

1. This man has no friends, and he is to be pitied.
2. This man is to be pitied, because he has no friends.
3. Because this man has no friends, he is to be pitied.
4. This man, who has no friends, is to be pitied.
5. This man, having no friends, is to be pitied.
6. This man, without friends, is to be pitied.
7. This friendless man deserves our pity.