324. In such expressions as from time to time, from place to place, etc., the words from and to may be omitted

*Many Graham writers express all of by adding to all the f-v hook, to which, in the case here given, the tick would be added for he.

and their omission indicated by writing close together (or in proximity) the forms of the repeated word. 1Illustrations: from time to time

from place to place

The peculiar form of the language - the duplication of the leading word of the phrase - removes all danger that proximity, as used in this case, may be understood as indicating of the. Such expressions as time of the time, place of the place, would not "make sense."

Exercise

325. According to the instructions just given, write the following:

from church to church from city to city from day to day from door to door from end to end from hour to hour from house to house from man to man from moment to moment from month to month

from mountain to mountain from mouth to mouth from nation to nation from night to night from ocean to ocean from point to point from side to side from tower to tower from town to town from valley to valley

326. When phrases of this class become very familiar, the two forms of the repeated word may be written without lifting the pen, from and to being still omitted. Illustrations: from generation to generation

from place

to place

In such cases "ellipsis" takes the place

of "proximity;" "indication" becomes "implication."