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2. I ---- all day waiting for help to arrive.
3. Where did you ---- the purse?
4. I ---- it on your desk.
5. I have ---- the letters on your desk.
6. They told me to ---- down. I ---- down for about two hours.
7. As I wished to bleach the clothes, I ---- them on the gra.s.s.
8. ---- the bundle down and listen to me.
9. You will probably find your cap ----ing where it has ----since you dropped it.
10. They let the field ---- fallow.
11. How long has it ---- fallow?
12. Yesterday he ---- on the gra.s.s almost all day.
13. The hunter ---- still and watched.
14. He ---- his gun beside him and waited.
15. It will ---- undisturbed till morning.
16. ---- down awhile before dinner.
17. I don't know how long he has ---- here.
18. He let his tools ---- in the rain.
=Exercise 113--Troublesome Verbs=
=Sit, Set=
_Sit_ is intransitive and signifies _to rest_. _Set_ is transitive and means _to place_. Insert the correct form:
1. I have ---- the ferns in the rain.
2. ---- down for a few minutes.
3. She drew up a chair and ---- down, while we were ----ting down the probable expenses of the new house.
4. Why don't you ---- us a good example?
5. ----ting the table is not strenuous enough for one who has been ----ting all day.
6. The hen is ----ting on her eggs.
7. The man is ----ting out trees.
8. ---- still; I'll go.
=Fly, Flow, Flee=
Remember that birds _fly_; rivers _flow_; hunted creatures _flee_.
9. Still the river ---- on its accustomed course.
10. Every autumn the birds ---- south.
11. The birds have not yet ---- away.
12. The deer ---- before the dogs.
=Rise, Raise=
_Rise_ is intransitive; _raise_ is transitive.
13. I have been trying all morning to ---- this window.
14. I set the bread to ----.
15. He will surely ---- in his profession.
=Teach, Learn=
16. Will you ---- me how to play tennis?
17. I thought you had ---- how to play tennis.
18. I ---- (past tense) her the new system of filing.
=May, Can=
_May_ signifies permission; _can_ denotes possibility.
19. ---- I use your book?
20. ---- you write shorthand?
21. ---- I go with you?
22. My mother says that I ---- go with you.
=Might, Could=
