*27.Does quickly here modify left or dropping? The remedy is, to give i remember that time the adverb its unemphatic place, He quickly left the room, dropping &c.He was a very thunderbolt of war, And was lieutenant to the Earl of Mar.(b) After a i remember that time long and tedious journey, the last part of which was a little dangerous owing to the state of the roads, we arrived safely at York, which is a fine old town.Often, when a participle qualifying the subject is introduced late in the sentence, it causes positive ambiguity With this small force the general determined to attack the foe, flushed with recent victory and rendered negligent by success.Where there is any danger of ambiguity, use (3) or (4) i remember that time in preference to (1) or (2).He first pointed out the possibility of advancing he warned them of the approaching scarcity of provisions he showed how they might replenish their exhausted stock &c.Write not, i remember that time as some say, wastefulness, but industry, self dependence, and frugality.for the most part, at the beginning or at the end of the sentence.Unemphatic words must, as a rule, be kept from the end of the i remember that time sentence.* This is most common in antithesis.* Avoid, John Smith, the son of Thomas Smith, who gave me this book, i remember that time unless Thomas Smith is the antecedent of who.Thus The old miser said that he should have been delighted to give the poor fellow a shilling, but most unfortunately he had left his purse at home a habit of his.