Business English: A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig

handed down through six generations in each of which it was a treasured possession? The Italian peasants who love finery are proud to do that very thing. Very few of the poorer people who live in Italy own a hat. When you see a beautifully woven Leghorn hat which is also very dirty on the head of a little peasant child you may be pretty sure that she is celebrating her birthday by wearing the family heirloom. These hats which are sometimes willed to a favorite relative and which in some instances go the round of the family are considered almost priceless. It is a frequent sight along the dusty roads outside the little towns to see untidy old women who are sauntering along twisting twine as they go all vanity under the flopping brim of an antiquated hat. This is almost the only souvenir that tourists' money cannot buy.--_The Chicago Tribune._ =Exercise 187--Explanatory Expressions= E. When the subordinate element that comes at or near the close of the sentence gives an _additional_ idea, following the more or less complete idea in the rest of the sentence, it should be set off by a comma; as, A signature clerk will easily recognize any alteration in a signature, _although thousands of checks pass through his hands daily_. He gave a statement of the affairs of the company, _explaining that he wished to make a loan_. =Rule 10.--A terminal adverbial clause or participial phrase giving an additional idea should be set off from the rest of the sentence by a comma.= Punctuate the following: