Direction: Broadly speaking letters may be said to (101) into two classes: the formal and (102) Formal letters (103) of official or business matters and are (104) to an employer, officials of a department or institutions. Letters to the (105) of a newspaper also belong to this class. In fact all (106) using formal pattern is of this category. The (107) has to be precisely stated. It must be (108) in style and quite (109) No (110) element has any place in it.

Direction: All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very (91) of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long (92) of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not (93) by some demon whom one can neither (94) nor understand. For all one knows that demon. is simply the same (95) that makes a baby (96) for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to (97) one’s own personality. Good prose is like a window pane. I cannot say with certainty which of my motives are the strongest, but I know which of them deserve to be followed. And (98) through my work, I see that it is (99) where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was (100) into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally.