Excerpt from Exercises in ProofreadingThe copy should be read aloud to the correcter by some personwhocan pronounce distintly and with ease every word contained in it. The correcter holds the proof and the Reader the copy. Corcec tion should be made on the black margln, opposite the lines in which the erors are respectively found and in ezactly the same order in which the errors occur. Corections are generally seperated from each other by obliqe lines When severel errors occur in one line, the changes shuold bemadeon the margen nearest the several errors wich they are intended to corect.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.