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_? PART VI. 1. The way was long, the wind was cold. Express the metre of this symbolically. 2. Define _rhyme_. 3. Give instances of _Service metre_, _Blank heroics_, _Alexandrines_. PART VII. 1. How far do the present dialects of England coincide with the parts, that took their names from the _Angles_ and the _Saxons_ respectively. 2. What traces of Danish or Norse occupancy do we find in local names? * * * * * NOTES. * * * * * [1] The immediate authority for these descents, dates, and localities is Sharon Turner. They are nearly the same as those which are noticed in Mr. Kemble's _Saxons in England_. In the former writer, however, they are given as historical facts; in the latter they are subjected to criticism, and considered as exceptionable.