Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - I
| Description: Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - I | |
| Number of Questions: 10 | |
| Created by: Palash Sundaram | |
| Tags: Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - I Adjectives and Adverbs (Word Usage) Preposition and Conjunction Modifier Articles and Determiners |
The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body out of the bed, but he had not seen this lower part, and could not imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive.
The war with Germany, incident on that country's seizure of the Samoan Islands, had left no visible scars upon the republic, and the temporary occupation of Norfolk by the invading army was forgotten in the joy over repeated naval victories, and the subsequent ridiculous plight of General Von Gartenlaube's forces in the State of New Jersey.
In many cases, Chinese banks work with so-called trust firms to attract savings through high-yielding investment products while lend the money to high-risk sectors, including property developers and cash-strapped local governments, without having to book the loans on their balance sheets.
Here, in this room, more than four hundred years ago had assembled from various parts of the Christian world, not less than thirty cardinals, four patriarchs, twenty archbishops, one hundred and fifty bishops, two hundred professors of theology, besides princes, ambassadors, civil and ecclesiastical, abbots, priors, and inferior churchmen.
He who can peruse it without a tearful eye, a heaving breast, an afflicted spirit, without being filled with an unutterable abhorrence of slavery and all its abettors, and animated with a determination to seek the immediate overthrow of that execrable system, without trembling for the fate of this country in the hands of a righteous God, who is ever on the side of the oppressed, and whose arm is not shortened that it cannot save, must have a flinty heart, and be qualified to act the part of a trafficker “in slaves and the souls of men.”
He capered before them down the forty-foot hole, fluttering his wing-like hands, leaping nimbly, Mercury's hat quivering in the fresh wind that bore back to them his brief bird-sweet cries.
Starting from the principles of Symbolism and the relations which are necessary between words and things in any language, it applies the result of this inquiry to various departments of traditional philosophy, showing in every case how traditional philosophy and traditional solutions arise out of ignorance of the principles of Symbolism and out of misuse of language.
It was as if the plague had broken out in the country and news had been spreading around that in one or another place there was a man, a wise man, a knowledgeable one, whose words and breath was enough to heal everyone who had been infected with the pestilence, and as such news would go through the land and everyone would talk about it, many would believe, many would doubt, but many would get on their way as soon as possible, to seek the wise man, the helper, just like this the myth ran through the land, that fragrant myth of Gotama, the Buddha, the wise man of the family of Sakya.
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothing one cannot infer the form of the thought clothed, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.
I say at once there are few difficulties in holding hereditary states, and those that are long accustomed to the family of their prince, than new ones; for it is sufficient only not to transgress the customs of his ancestors, and to deal prudently with circumstances as they arise, for a prince of average powers to maintain himself in his state, unless he be deprived of it by some extraordinary and excessive force; and if he should be so deprived of it, whenever anything sinister happens to the usurper, he will regain it.