For questions 1—15 read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct and some have a word that shouldn’t be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (v) in the appropriate box on your answer sheet. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word down in the appropriate box on your answer sheet. Happy Quoting!
1. Quotations and sayings are part of our language and our way of
2. life. As the poet Emerson said, we use of them by necessity; to
3. remind ourselves to look before we leap or to avoid crossing
4. our bridges before we come over to them. We use them by habit,
5. often not realizing we are doing so much, and we all love to
6. use an apt quotation to enliven conversation or score a point
7. in an argument. The booklet contains over above a thousand
8. quotations, proverbs and sayings. Together they offer a great
9. deal of the information, advice, amusement and comfort.
10. Emerson wrote: “I hate quotations”, so it is doubtful that he
11. would have been used this booklet — but we hope that you will.
12. Whether you use it to improve your knowledge more, as an aid to
13. solving crossword puzzles, to enrich your own speech or simply
14. for idle reading in your spare time, it will put you in to
15. touch with some of the cleverest minds of the past and at present.
Happy reading and happy quoting!
