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4. _Is the English Language natural or artificial?_ Artificial.
5. _How many kinds of Artificial Language?_ Two.
6. _What are they._ Spoken and written.
7. _What is Spoken Language?_ That produced by the vocal organs.
8. _What is Written Language?_ Any method of communicating thought or feeling by the use of written or printed characters.
9. _What are the messengers of thought?_ Sentences.
10. _What is a Sentence?_ An a.s.semblage of words conveying a thought.
11. _What is a Word?_ A sign of an idea.
12. _What is Lexicology?_ That science which treats of the meaning of words.
13. _What is Etymology?_ That science which treats of the origin and derivation of words.
14. _What is Orthogeny?_ That science which treats of the cla.s.sification of words into parts of speech.
15. _What is Syntax?_ That science which treats of the relation and connection of words in the construction of a sentence.
16. _What is Prosody?_ That science which treats of punctuation and the laws of versification.
17. _Of what is a word composed?_ A syllable or combination of syllables.
18. _What is a Syllable?_ A letter or letters uttered by a single impulse of the voice.
19. _What is the essential part of a syllable?_ A vowel.
20. _Can there be a syllable without it containing a vowel sound?_ There cannot.
21. _What is Syllabication?_ That branch of etymology which treats of the division of words into syllables.
22. _How many methods of Syllabication are there?_ Two.
23. _What are they?_ English and American.
24. _What is the object of the English method?_ To separate words into their elementary parts without regard to p.r.o.nunciation; as, a-tom.
25. _What is the object of the American method?_ To indicate the proper p.r.o.nunciation by separating affixes from the roots.
26. _What is a word of one syllable called?_ A monosyllable.
27. _What is a word of two syllables called?_ A dissyllable.
28. _What is a word of three syllables called?_ A trisyllable.
29. _What is a word of more than three syllables called?_ A polysyllable.
30. _What is the Ultimate syllable of a word?_ The last syllable.
31. _What is the Penultimate syllable?_ Next to the last syllable in a word.
32. _What is the Antepenultimate syllable?_ The last syllable but two in a word.
33. _What is the Preantepenultimate syllable?_ The last syllable but three in a word.
34. _What other way may the syllables be described?_ In their numerical order; as, first, second, etc.
35. _How many syllables can a word have?_ As many as it has vowels or diphthongs sounded.
36. _How many words in the English language?_ About one hundred and twenty thousand.
37. _How are words divided in reference to form?_ Into simple and compound.
38. _How are they divided in reference to origin?_ Into primitive and derivative.
39. _What is a Simple word?_ One that is not composed of two or more whole words.
40. _What is a Compound word?_ One that is composed of two or more distinct words.
41. _What is a Primitive word?_ One in no way derived from another in the same language.
42. _What is a Radical word?_ Same as primitive.
43. _What is a Derivative word?_ One formed by joining to a primitive some letter or letters to modify its meaning.
44. _What is a.n.a.lysis?_ Separating a word or syllable into its elements or parts.
45. _What is Synthesis?_ The process of combining elements to form syllables and words.
46. _What is the Base of a Compound word?_ That word representing the fundamental idea.
47. _What is the Modifier in a Compound word?_ That word which describes the other.
48. _What is the Base of a Derivative word?_ The primitive from which it is derived.
49. _What is the Modifier in a Derivative word?_ The affix.
50. _What is an Affix?_ That part of a derivative word attached to the root.
51. _How many Root words in the English language?_ Over one thousand.
52. _What is a Prefix?_ That part of a derivative word placed before the root.
53. _What is a Postfix?_ That part of a derivative word placed after the root.
