GRAMMAR EXERCISE

     EXERCISE 1
Our beagle loves hunting.She barrels down porch steps into yard when someone opens the back door for her, and then she runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy.Her nose cryises the wet grass for smells of cats,rabbit and other presences too subtle for human detection.She spins her tail in guick circles while sniffing.It spins clockwise first, and then it spins counterclockwise. these two activities,sniffing and spinning, always occur together. They seem to be propel her along.

    EXERCISE 2
The Goverment Printing Office in Washington D.C.,the official publishing house for federal goverment,is a sourse of much useful information.But, not many people know about it. The GPO publishes pamphlets and books on a vast number of subjects which range from the dangers of X-rays from home TV sets to theidentification of mushrooms.About 27.000 publication are offered though the Superintendent of Documents, many of which are in expensive.Moreover, there is no charge at all for some of them.

   EXERCISE 3
John Jacob Astor was the man who reaped America's first fortune.He was a German immigrant who was lowborn,uneducated.In addition, he never learnt to speak English properly. He made his inital money trading Indian furs.He carried on his business to the end in an accent,redolent of the Hamburg gutters