1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading | Page 9

by a proper noun, should always begin with a capital.
22. Give Rule 19. All words referring to the Bible should begin with a capital.
23. Give Rule 20. All proper adjectives should begin with a capital.
24. Give Rule 21. The names of famous events, historical eras, noted documents, etc., should begin with a capital.
25. What establishes a rule for Capitals? Good usage, or custom.
26. Give Rule 1 for the use of Italics. Words for emphasis should be printed in italics.
27. Give Rule 2. Names of books, poems, etc., are usually printed in italics.
28. Give Rule 3. Words from foreign languages are printed in italics.
29. Give Rule 4. Words in the Bible supplied by the translators are printed in italics.
30. _How are written words marked that are to be printed in Capitals?_ By underscoring the words with two lines.
31. _How are written words marked that are to be printed in Italics?_ By underscoring the words with one line.
32. When use the Interjection O? The letter O is a vocative particle, and should always be used before nouns or pronouns in the absolute case by direct address.--[Ridpath.]
33. When use Oh? In all cases where it is not followed by nouns, or pronouns, in the vocative case.--[Ridpath.]

ABBREVIATIONS.
1. What is an abbreviation? One or more of the letters of a word standing for the whole word.
2. What is the signification of A.C.S.? American Colonization Society.
3. Give meaning A.B.C.F.M. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
4. What is the signification AAA.? Amalgamation.
5. What is the signification of Ang.-Sax.? Anglo-Saxon.
6. Give signification of A.T. Arch-Treasurer.
7. What is the signification of C.A.S.? Fellow of the Connecticut Academy.
8. What is the signification of C.C.? County Court, or County Commissioner.
9. What is the meaning of D.C.L.? Doctor of Civil Law.
10. What is the signification of D.M.? Doctor of Music.
11. What is the signification of A.U.C.? In the year of the city.
12. What is the meaning of F.E.S.? Fellow of the Entomological Society.
13. What is the signification of H.R.I.P.? Here rests in peace.
14. What is the signification of L.C.J.? Lord Chief Justice.
15. What is the signification of N.u.? Name unknown.
16. What is the signification of P.a.? Participial adjective.
17. What is the signification of P.v.? Post village.
18. What is the signification of Qy.? Query.
19. What is the signification of Ro.? Righthand page.
20. What is the signification S.C.L.? Student of the Civil Law.
21. What is the signification of S.R.I.? Holy Roman Empire.
22. What is the signification of S.J.C.? Supreme Judicial Court.
23. What is the signification of U.S.S.? United States Ship.
24. What does U.K. signify? United Kingdom.
25. What does V.R. signify? Queen Victoria.
26. What does V.G. signify? For example.
27. What does Xt. signify? Christ.
28. What does Xmas. signify? Christmas.
29. What is the signification of Y.B.? Year Book.
30. What is the signification of Zo?l.? Zo?logy.
31. What does Yt. signify? That.
32. What is the signification of S.T.P.? Doctor of Divinity.

ACCENT AND PUNCTUATION.
1. Why is a word divided into syllables? For the purpose of showing their proper pronunciation and etymological composition.
2. What is Accent? A greater stress of voice placed on one syllable of a word than the others.
3. What kind of words have no accent? Monosyllables.
4. Why? Accent implies comparison, and there can be no comparison with one syllable.
5. How many kinds of accent? Common, Emphatic, and Discriminating.
6. What is common accent? Ordinary accent of spelling.
7. How many kinds of common accent? Two.
8. What are they? Primary and secondary.
9. What is primary accent? The principal accent.
10. What is secondary accent? The partial accent.
11. _What kind of accent is essential to every word of more than one syllable?_ Primary.
12. How close can primary and secondary accent come together? Not closer than two syllables.
13. How many primary accents can one word have? Only one.
14. How many secondary accents can a word have? Two.
15. In case of two secondary accents, where are they placed? On the first and third.
16. In case of two secondary, where is the primary accent? On the last but two.
17. Do the primary and secondary ever change places? They do.
18. In words of two syllables, where is the accent? Usually on the first.
19. In trisyllables, what syllable is accented? Usually the first.
20. Are there any exceptions? There are.
21. In polysyllables, where is the accent? On the antepenult usually.
22. In all words ending in ation, where is the accent? On the syllable next to the last.
23. What is Emphatic accent? Accent used for emphatic distinction.
24. Have monosyllables any accent? They have sometimes an emphatic, or poetic.
25. What is Discriminating accent? That used to determine parts of speech.
26, Give some examples. Au'gust, Au-gust'; Reb'el, Re-bel'.
27, What is Punctuation? The use of certain characters to aid the reader in determining the thought of the writer.
28. How many kinds of punctuation are there? Four.
29. What are they? Rhetorical, Etymological, for Reference, and for the Printer.
30. What is Rhetorical punctuation?