1.   In writing the above sentence, for example, you PRESUPPOSED that Dickens produced a second novel.

2.   A phrase like the second novel Dickens produced is not itself a statement of fact, but can be rewritten as a sentence to show its presupposition.

3.   Although Random House turned down his second novel, he has signed a contract for a two-book deal with Little, Brown.

4.   And it was also important for me to have it over with, that dreaded second novel.

5.   And she is hard at work on a second novel, a love story, and a screenplay about a woman who is a computer encryption specialist.

6.   A number of his creditors came forward to ask Hull not to give him a long prison term so he could finish his second novel.

7.   After all, the second novel has to meet the challenge of expectations.

8.   But after he sent a second novel to a publisher and it never returned, he stopped writing.

9.   But his second novel at least validates him as a player in both the New Journalism and the old fiction.

10.   Cambor is already at work on a second novel and hopes it will be the beginning of a string of books.