9. _What are the messengers of thought?_ Sentences.
10. _What is a Sentence?_ An assemblage of words conveying a thought.
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 classification 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 pronunciation; as, a-tom.
25. _What is the object of the American method?_ To indicate the proper pronunciation 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.
