A useful suffix.

ness means state of being; as, illness, state of being ill.

1. Copy carefully.

2. Write from dictation.

1. All wickedness is weakness. - JOHN MILTON.

2. The sunrise wakes the lark to sing,

The moonrise wakes the nightingale.
Come darkness, moonrise, everything
That is so silent, sweet, and pale.

- CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.

3. The myrtle dwells there, sending round the richness of its breath. - FELICIA D. HEMANS.

4. The gentleness of heaven is on the sea.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

5. Spurn every vice, each little meanness shun.

6. No sound amid night's stillness, save that which

seemed to be

The dull and heavy beating of the pulses of the sea.

-JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

7. Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

8. It was as if the summer's late Atoning for its sadness

- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

Had borrowed every season's charm,

To end its days in gladness. - JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. O, a seraph may pray for a sinner,

But a sinner must pray for himself!

- CHARLES DICKENS.

2. The wild hawk stood with down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.

- ALFRED TENNYSON.

3. How well I know what I mean to do When the long autumn evenings come!

4. His mien is lofty, but his gaze
Too well a wandering soul betrays.

ROBERT BRowning.

-FELICIA D. HEMANS.

5. A sense of elegance we rarely find
The portion of a mean or vulgar mind.

6. The happy mean between these two extremes. - THOMAS BABington, Lord Macaulay.

7. Come! let the burial rite be read

The funeral song be sung. - EDGAR ALLAN POE.

8. Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

9. And 'tis the sad complaint, and almost true, Whate'er we write, we bring forth nothing new.

Useful suffixes.

er, in adjectives, means more; as, wiser, more wise. est, in adjectives, means most; as, wisest, most wise. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. All that's bright must fade,

The brightest still the fleetest. - THOMAS MOORE. 2. Doom'd to that sorest task of man alive, To make three guineas do the work of five.

3. A lovelier light on rock and hill, and stream and woodland lay,

And softer lapsed on sunnier sands the waters of the bay. — John Greenleaf Whittier.

4. 'Tis morn, and nature's richest dyes

Are floating o'er Italian skies. - FELICIA D. HEMANS.

5. Spring parts the clouds with softest airs,

That she may sun thee. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

6. He was in years just twenty, in his looks much older, and in conceit at least two hundred.

- CHARLES DICKENS.

7. I heard the bells, grown fainter, far behind me peal

and play,

Fainter, fainter, fainter, till they seem'd to die away.

8. Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

- HENRY WARD BEECHER.

Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. Seam and gusset and band,

Band and gusset and seam,·

Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed,
As well as the weary hand. - Thomas Hood.

2. The Earth and Ocean seem to sleep.

- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

3. He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin

That touch'd the ruff that touch'd Queen Bess's chin.

- EDWARD YOUNG.

4. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

5. Why does the sea moan evermore?

- CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.

6. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot
On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot,
And she heard the little spring brook fall
Over the roadside, through the wall.

-JOHN GREENLEAF WHittier.

7. And all that she has made of that
Is one poor pound of tow. - Robert Burns.

8. Come and trip it as you go,

On the light fantastic toe. -JOHN MILTON.