sounds form words? and what of the rest? 10.  How many and what are the consonant sounds in English? 11.  In what series of words may all these sounds be heard? 12.  In what series of words may each of them be heard two or three times? 13.  What is said of the sounds of j and x? 14.  What is said of the sounds of c and g? 15.  What is said of sc, or s before c? 16.  What, of ce, ci, and ch? 17.  What sounds has the consonant g? 18.  In how many different ways can the letters of the alphabet be combined? 19.  What do we derive from these combinations of sounds and characters?

LESSON IV.—­CAPITALS.

1.  What characters are employed in English? 2.  Why should the different sorts of letters be kept distinct? 3.  What is said of the slanting strokes in Roman letters? 4.  For what purpose are Italics chiefly used? 5.  In preparing a manuscript, how do we mark these things for the printer? 6.  What distinction of form belongs to each of the letters? 7.  What is said of small letters? and why are capitals used? 8.  What things are commonly exhibited wholly in capitals? 9.  How many rules for capitals are given in this book? and what are their titles? 10.  What says Rule 1st of books? 11.  What says Rule 2d of first words? 12.  What says Rule 3d of names of Deity? 13.  What says Rule 4th of proper names? 14.  What says Rule 5th of titles? 15.  What says Rule 6th of one capital? 16.  What says Rule 7th of two capitals? 17.  What says Rule 8th of compounds? 18.  What says Rule 9th of apposition? 19.  What says Rule 10th of personifications? 20.  What says Rule 11th of derivatives? 21.  What says Rule 12th of I and O? 22.  What says Rule 13th of poetry? 23.  What says Rule 14th of examples? 24.  What says Rule 15th of chief words? 25.  What says Rule 16th of needless capitals?

[Now turn to the first chapter of Orthography, and correct the improprieties there quoted for the practical application of these rules.]

LESSON V.—­SYLLABLES.

1.  What is a syllable? 2.  Can the syllables of a word be perceived by the ear? 3.  Under what names are words classed according to the number of their syllables? 4.  Which of the letters can form syllables of themselves? and which cannot? 5.  What is a diphthong? 6.  What is a proper diphthong? 7.  What is an improper diphthong? 8.  What is a triphthong? 9.  What is a proper triphthong? 10.  What is an improper triphthong? 11.  How many and what are the diphthongs in English? 12.  How many and which of these are so variable in sound that they may be either proper or improper diphthongs? 13.  How many and what are the proper diphthongs? 14.  How many and what are the improper diphthongs? 15.  Are proper triphthongs numerous in our language? 16.  How many and what are the improper triphthongs?