+Direction+.--_See in how many places the phrases in the sentences above
may stand without obscuring the thought._

+Caution+.--So place phrase modifiers that there can be no doubt as to what
yon intend them to modify. Have regard to the sound also.

+Direction+.--_Correct these errors in position, and use the comma when
needed_:--

1. The honorable member was reproved for being intoxicated by the
president.
2. That small man is speaking with red whiskers.
3. A message was read from the President in the Senate.
4. With his gun toward the woods he started in the morning.
5. On Monday evening on temperance by Mr. Gough a lecture at the old brick
church was delivered.

+Direction+.--_Form a sentence out of each of these groups of words_:--

(Look sharply to the arrangement and the punctuation.)

1. Of mind of splendor under the garb often is concealed poverty.
2. Of affectation of the young fop in the face impertinent an was seen
smile.
3. Has been scattered Bible English the of millions by hundreds of the
earth over the face.
4. To the end with no small difficulty of the journey at last through deep
roads we after much fatigue came.
5. At the distance a flood of flame from the line from thirty iron mouths
of twelve hundred yards of the enemy poured forth.