Chapter LXXXV: Part V
1. Explain the terms _Syntax_, _Ellipsis_, _Pleonasm_, _Zeugma_, _Pros
to semainomenon_, _Apposition_, and _Convertibility_, giving
illustrations of each.
2. What is the government of adjectives?
3. What is the construction in--
a. Rob _me_ the Exchequer.--SHAKSPEARE.
b. Mount _ye_ on horseback.
c. _His_ mother.
d. If the salt have lost _his_ savour.
e. Myself _is_ weak.
f. This is _mine_.
4. What are the concords between the relative and antecedent? How far
is, _whom_ do they say that I am, an exceptionable expression?
5. _Eteocles and Polynices killed each other._ What is the construction
here? _Ils se battaient, l'un l'autre_--_Ils se battaient, les uns les
autres._ Translate these two sentences into English. _My wife and
little ones are well._ What is the origin of the word _ones_ here? _It
_was_ those who spoke_. _These _was_ those who spoke_. Why is one of
those expressions correct, and the other incorrect?
6. What is the difference between--
_The_ secretary and treasurer,
and
_The_ secretary and _the_ treasurer?
What is that between--
The first two--
and
The two first?
7. What is the construction of--
He sleeps the sleep of the righteous?
8. Whether do you say--It is I your master who command you, or It is I
your master who commands you!
9. Barbican it _hight_. Translate this into Latin.
10. Explain in full the following constructions--
a. I have ridden a horse.
b. I am to blame.
c. I am beaten.
d. A part of the body.
e. All fled but John.
11. What is meant by the _Succession of Tenses_? Show the logical
necessity of it.
12. Or _hear'st_ thou rather pure ethereal stream,
Whose fountain _who can_ tell?--MILTON.
Give the meaning of this passage, and explain the figure of speech
exhibited in the words in Italics.
13. The _door_ being open the steed was stolen.--In what case is
_door_?
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