We can help the reader grasp our meaning quickly by arranging our sentences in groups. A group of sentences which relate to a single division of the subject is called a paragraph. Every paragraph should be indented; that is, the first word should be written about an inch farther to the right than the first word of any other line in the paragraph.

When we come to the study of paragraphs and sentences, we are no longer dealing with mere details of form affecting the appearance of the manuscript, but with what is of much greater importance - the substance and construction of the composition. These are matters with which we shall soon become familiar.

1The teacher may do well to explain that dictionaries differ in unimportant particulars; for example, that one gives traveling and another travelling, etc.