29. _What is the signification of Y.B.?_ Year Book.

30. _What is the signification of Zoöl.?_ Zoölogy.

1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading — Part 18

32. _What is the signification of S.T.P.?_ Doctor of Divinity.

1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading — Part 18

1. _Why is a word divided into syllables?_ For the purpose of showing their proper pronunciation and etymological composition.

1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading — Part 18

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.