Culled from Twenty Years Ago

Michael culled these from lower level English composition classes in the early 1980s.

• "Maturity and experience come with age."


• "Most spectators see Formula One drivers as people who stop at nothing to win."


• "As an end product of each class, I received a letter grade from A to F, excluding E."


• "When reality finally sets in, the true fan will feel as though a close freind [sic] had died."


• "Students are now in school to get degrees so they can get a descent [sic] job."


• "The two city council candidates do not frequent the pool thusly they did not have enough information to make a valid claim that the department wastes money on lifeguards."


• "The president is only a figurehead with a birthright position."


• "It was a very encomppassing book which captivated my attention until the very end."

Wycherly's Country Wife

I culled both of these sentences many years ago from a paper on the Restoration play The Country Wife by William Wycherley.

• Horner's action in this play is mainly based on manipulating other characters orally.
• Horner's manipulation of Sir Jasper Fidget continues when he pretends to be impotent.