This section is from the book "Lessons In English", by Chestine Gowdy, Lora M. Dexheimer. Also available from Amazon: Lessons in English.
1. A stitch in time saves nine.
2. Where there's a will there's a way.
3. Haste makes waste.
4. Little strokes fell great oaks.
What does each of these old sayings mean? Think of something you have done, or have known some one else to do, which shows that some one of these proverbs is true. Be ready to tell the story in class.
Learn each proverb. Write the proverbs from memory, then look in the book to see if you have written them correctly. Why is the apostrophe used in writing the second one?
Write in other words what each proverb means.
Write any other proverbs that you know.
 
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