① To blame without pointing the way to improvement helps nobody.

② To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

③ To get to the bottom of things, to find out what makes the machines go, are ambitions worthy not only of the child but of the man.

④ Driving in the county on a fine spring day is more pleasant than anything.

⑤ The designing of the building will be entrusted to Mr. Green.

⑥ The signing the treaty is expected to take place this coming Monday.

⑦ Reading speed is important, but being able to think straight about what you read is far more valuable. Reading without thinking may do harm if what you read is not true.

⑧ That the earth must be flat formerly seemed so obvious and self-evident that the very suggestion of any other possibility would have been regarded as a joke.

⑨ That Beethoven, who was so passionately fond of music, should cease to hear, seemed too cruel to be true.

⑩ That scientific progress has been wonderful cannot be denied, but that it gives us the right to look upon ourselves as most highly civilized people is doubtful.

⑪ Whether we shall go to him or he will come to us will not matter much.

⑫ Who will be elected president is a matter of deep concern to the nation.

⑬ Whatever is frequently mentioned on television cannot fail to become widely known.