IV. Point out and correct the faults in the following sentences:
- During childhood his mother had died.
- Any language study is good mind training while acquiring vocabulary.
- My farm consisted of about twenty acres of excellent land, having given a hundred pounds for my predecessor's lease.
- Prepared to encounter a woman of disordered mind, the appearance presented by Mrs. Taylor at his entrance greatly astonished him.
- Pale and swooning, with two broken legs, they carried him into the house.
- Count Cassini, the Russian plenipotentiary, had several long and intimate conversations during the tedious weeks of the conference with his British colleague, Sir Arthur Nicholson.
- But though they had been victorious in the land engagements, they were so little decisive as to lead to no important results.
- Knowing nothing of the rules of the college or of its customs, it was with the greatest difficulty that the Dean could make me comprehend wherein my wrong-doing lay.
- Fire, therefore, was the first object of my search. Happily, some embers were found upon the hearth, together with potato-stalks and dry chips. Of these, with much difficulty, I kindled a fire, by which some warmth was imparted to our shivering limbs.
- In this connection a great deal of historic fact is introduced into the novel about the past history of the cathedral and of Spain.
- Over the whole scene hung the haze of twilight that is so peaceful.
- Compared with Italy, living is more expensive.
- It is a fundamental principle of law to believe a man innocent until he is proved guilty, and once proved guilty, to remain so until proved to the contrary.
- Not only had the writer entrée to the titled families of Italy in whose villas she was hospitably entertained, but by royalty also.
- It is not a strange sight to catch a glimpse of deer along the shore.
- Earnings from other sources are of such a favorable character as to enable a splendid showing to be made by the company.
- But while earnings have mounted amazingly, the status of affairs is such as to make it impossible to predict the course events may take, with any degree of accuracy.