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PRACTICAL SCIENCE

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE.

FIRST YEAR ENGLISH.

(Keep the answers to the two sections in separate books).

A.

1. Write a paragraph with one of the following as topic

sentence:

(a) Fashions change with bewildering rapidity.

(b) A young man may enter public life by any one of several doors.

(c) Municipal elections ought to be non-partisan.

(d) The use of steel and concrete has brought about many changes in building.

(e) The deepening of the Welland canal will greatly benefit Kingston.

2. Explain what is meant by a loose sentence, a periodic sentence, parallel structure. Give two examples of each. Point out the advantages to be gained by a judicious use of the periodic sentence and parallel structure. When is the periodic structure preferable to the loose? Why?

3. Write a reply to a formal invitation to dinner.

4. What qualities are found in good diction? Criticize the diction, i.e. the use of words, in the following sentences:

(a) While Mr. John Lyon was not, to use a vulgar phrase, "busted," three of the minutest coins of the realm were the bulwarks which stood between him and a compound financial fracture.

(b) A great building was at the top of the hill, and the stone of the courtyards and fountains was broken, and stained with various colors, and the stones in the courtyards where animals were kept had been overgrown.

(c) I don't know as how that would be the best way to bring them to time.

5. Punctuate these sentences:

(a) None however was so dissatisfied as Cedric who regarded the whole scene with scorn.

(b) Now Wegg said Mr. Buffin hugging his stick closer I want to make an offer to you.

(c) He provided himself with the following books a dictionary a Latin grammar an atlas and a Bible.

6. Correct or improve the following sentences:

(a) When any one refused to pay the extra five cents, they were thrown off the car, sometimes even women were treated in this way.

(b) The most convenient and modern system of heating being by the hot air or hot water furnace.

(c) Not knowing how to manage the boat, it capsized. (d) His daily programme consists in taking a walk early in the morning, then he eats breakfast and goes to school.

(e) The foregoing is the smallest part of the work for the photographer, as the picture has yet to be developed and printed, which is the most difficult and slowest part of the operation.

(f) There have been several mass meetings held in the gymnasium for this purpose, which have been largely attended.

B.

7. Write a full account of one of the following topics:(a) The life and influence of Dr. Johnson.

(b) The development of the Essay from Bacon to Lamb; changes in subject-matter and style.

(c) The Essay in the nineteenth century; its scope of subject-matter, variety of style; illustrations.

8. Write notes on five of the following topics:

(a) Carlyle's and Macaulay's treatment of historical personages contrasted.

(b) The names of the essayists and poets contemporary with Lamb.

(c) The problem of Bacon's character.

(d) Thackeray's "The Book of Snobs."
(e) The influence of the Spectator Papers.

(g) Hazlitt and Stevenson on Walking.

(h) Boswell's "Life of Johnson."

9. (1) State whether or not you have completed the assigned reading.

(2) Of any three of the following passages, name the author, and the work in which each appeared :

(a) So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing what pleased me most.

(b) The old philosopher is still among us in the brown coat with the metal buttons, and the shirt which ought to be at wash, blinking, puffing, rolling his head, drumming with his fingers, tearing his meat like a tiger, and swallowing his tea in

oceans.

(c)

for there is rarely any rising but by commixture of good and evil arts. (d)

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I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality. . . I have resolved to refresh their Memories from Day to Day, till I have recovered them out of the desperate State of Vice and Folly into which the Age is fallen.

(e) "Do the Duty which lies nearest thee," which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer.

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