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Directions for Correcting a Theme
When a theme is returned to you, number each correction, and draw aheavy circle about the number. Then take another sheet of paper, andusing the numbers that correspond to those on your theme, state in eachcase the error you made; then correct it, and give your reason formaking this correction: for instance, if the mistake is marked W,i.e. a word misused, state whether the word to which the criticobjected is not in good usage, or is too often repeated, or does notgive the idea intended. Next, supply the proper word and show that itfits the place. Answer any questions asked by the critic and follow outany suggestion given. Put the sheet of corrections in proper form for aM.S. Fasten the sheet to your original theme and hand both to theteacher in charge of the laboratory. No credit will be given for anywritten 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, ofsentences 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.
PRINCIPAL OF THE NORTHWESTERN HIGH SCHOOL
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY EDWIN L. MILLER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
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PREFACE
This volume is the second in a series of four, each of which ha