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2. Do not leave uncompleted a construction which you have begun.

 Wrong: You remember that in his speech in which he said he would oppose the bill.

 Right: You remember that in his speech he said he would oppose the bill. [Or] You remember the speech in which he said he would oppose the bill.

 Wrong: He was a young man who, coming from the country, with ignorance of city ways, but with plenty of determination to succeed.

 Right: He was a young man who, coming from the country, was ignorant of city ways, but had plenty of determination to succeed.

 Wrong: From the window of the train I perceived one of those unsightly structures.

 Right: From the window of the train I perceived one of those unsightly structures which are always to be seen near a station.

Exercise:

1 As far as his having been deceived, there is a difference of opinion on that matter.

2 The fact that he was always in trouble, his parents wondered whether he should remain in school or not.

3 People who go back to the scenes of their childhood everything looks strangely small.

4 It was the custom that whenever a political party came into office, for the incoming men to discharge all employees of the opposite party.

5 Although the average man, if asked whether he could shoot a rabbit, would answer in the affirmative, even though he had never hunted rabbits, would find himself badly mistaken.