may the adjective either precede or follow the noun? 9.  What are the construction and import of the phrases, in particular, in general, and the like? 10.  What is said of adjectives as agreeing or disagreeing with their nouns in number? 11.  What is observed of this and that as referring to two nouns connected? 12.  What is remarked of the use of adjectives for adverbs? 13.  How can one determine whether an adjective or an adverb is required? 14.  What is remarked of the placing of two or more adjectives before one noun? 15.  How can one avoid the ambiguity which Dr. Priestley notices in the use of the adjective no?

LESSON XX.—­PRONOUNS.

1.  Can such pronouns as stand for things not named, be said to agree with the nouns for which they are substituted? 2.  Is the pronoun we singular when it is used in lieu of I? 3.  Is the pronoun you singular when used in lieu of thou or thee? 4.  What is there remarkable in the construction of ourself and yourself? 5.  Of what person, number, and gender, is the relative, when put after such terms of address as, your Majesty, your Highness, your Lordship, your Honour? 6.  How does the English fashion of putting you for thou, compare with the usage of the French, and of other nations? 7.  Do any imagine these fashionable substitutions to be morally objectionable? 8.  What figures of rhetoric are liable to affect the agreement of pronouns with their antecedents? 9.  How does the pronoun agree with its noun in cases of personification? 10.  How does the pronoun agree with its noun in cases of metaphor? 11.  How does the pronoun agree with its noun in cases of metonymy? 12.  How does the pronoun agree with its noun in cases of synecdoche? 13.  What is the usual position of pronouns, and what exceptions are there? 14.  When a pronoun represents a phrase or sentence, of what person, number, and gender is it? 15.  Under what circumstances can a pronoun agree with either of two antecedents? 16.  With what does the relative agree when an other word is introduced by the pronoun it? 17.  In the sentence, “It is useless to complain,” what does it represent? 18.  How are relative and interrogative pronouns placed? 19.  What are the chief constructional peculiarities of the relative pronouns? 20.  Why does the author discard the two special rules commonly given for the construction of relatives?

LESSON XXI.—­PRONOUNS.